#eat

If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, ridiculous, or truly pitiable, he is lord and God thereof. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#beauty #creativity #motivational #art

Nobody wants to be nothing. But that's the greatest thing in the world to be. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#life-philosophy #the-greatest-thing #life

Building positive customer experiences will help create passionate customers who will spread your message on their behalf - almost like an evangelist. ↗

— Simon Zingerman

#business #creativity #feel-good #good-hearted #goodness

The human mind is so limited it can only build an arbitrary heaven — and usually the physical comforts they endow it with are naively the kind that can be perceived as we humans perceive — nothing more. No: perhaps I will awake to find myself burning in hell. I think not. I think I will be snuffed out. Black is sleep; black is a fainting spell; and black is death, with no light, no waking. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#death #human-mind #death

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. And if you be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-boat, you would not at heart feel one whit more of terror, than though seated before your evening fire with a poker, and not a harpoon, by your side. ↗

— Herman Melville

#mortality #death

(Parody that is often falsely believed to be a true quote of Mariah Carey's) Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff. ↗

— MAD Magazine

#flies #humor #starving #stupid #death

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death? ↗

— Euripides

#philosophical #profound #wisdom #death

7190 "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishing." ↗

— — Anaïs Nin

#inspirational #death

Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#equilibrium #life #death

Vivo sin vivir en mí... muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying.) ↗

— Teresa of Ávila

#life #philosophy #death