#ill

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#declare #deepest #degrees #despair #disappear

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#comes #consider #equal #every #every man

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you. ↗

— Prince

#computers #digital #fill #gadgets #good

Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin. ↗

— Joseph Prince

#flowing #god #grace #sin #stop

You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane) ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-prince #devices #infernal #infernal-devices #life

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. ↗

— Richard Powers

#book #considered #form #head #hearing

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously. ↗

— Richard Powers

#liked #only #place #someone #still

Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#children #happy #raise #teach #them

What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love. ↗

— Susan Powter

#go #how #individualism #interconnectedness #killing

I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter. ↗

— Susan Powter

#bills #cash #dance #enlightening #gutter