#eat

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#demands #difficult #fidelity #greater #heroic

She reached for his wrist, clutched it. “How do I look?” “Hurt. Pained. Destroyed.” “If I could look into your eyes, what would I see in them, Iain?” “Devastation. Shame for what I was. Hatred for the vanity and arrogance of my youth. A love for you that has never, ever died, but has only grown and matured, and become all-consuming. Tears,” he said, and pressed his face to hers so she could “see” them. “Because I know it is truly over now that the truth is out, and I don’t know how I’m going to live without you. Forgive me,” he whispered, then stole a kiss from her lips. “Forgive me, and the boy I was, and the man I turned out to be. ↗

— Charlotte Featherstone

#elizabeth #iain #temptation-and-twilight #forgiveness

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

#part #problem #solution #whatever

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#design #environmental #great #great problems #problems

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. ↗

— Aesop

#greater #mind #smaller

Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day. ↗

— Ted Allen

#day #eats #every #every day #food

I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#great #i #pick #play #shots

The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth. ↗

— Louis Agassiz

#ago #earth #glacier #god #great

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. ↗

— Akhenaton

#cares #contented #contented mind #greatest #hidden

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace. ↗

— Anna Akhmatova

#dead #happy #only #peace #smiled