#harm

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#beauty #harmony #beauty

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing. ↗

— John Donne

#great #great thing #harmless #masterpiece #nature

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management. ↗

— John Doolittle

#basic #been #component #confined #developments

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#does #felt #good #harm #i

When we feel, a kind of lyric is sung in our heart. When we think, a kind of music is played in our mind. In harmony, both create a beautiful symphony of life. ↗

— Toba Beta

#harmony #heart #inspirational #instument #life

Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#doing #embarrassing #harm #individual #institutions

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#believe #come #enigma #had #harmless

I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it! ↗

— Jenna Elfman

#character #dharma #having #i #into

And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing. ↗

— Jenna Elfman

#bird #character #dharma #especially #found

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #desirability #disdain #education #empowerment