#erna

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#bloom #bring #conceive #eternal #express

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#because #despair #head #hope #i

Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria. ↗

— William Hague

#change #end #find #him #internationally

We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#environment #eternally #just #linked #other

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#beings #competing #conditions #following #human

Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#commitment #community #convention #crime #end

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#being #eternal #i #low #pretty

Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality. ↗

— Cordell Hull

#alone #another #brought #creation #desire

Fashions fade, style is eternal. ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

#fade #fashions #style

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#alternatives #avoid #being #cigarettes #interesting