#imply

Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#change things #done #expect #how #i

I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement. ↗

— Stephen King

#agreement #also #always #believe #believed

There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity. ↗

— John Knowles

#anonymity #difficult #drawback #ever #feeling

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#go #ground #into #just #lotus

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#aspect #beauty #charity #eyes #hence

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. ↗

— Claude Vorilhon

#ancestors #call #glorious #history #mistakes

I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov and Carver to help gain the confidence to figure it out. I knew, however, the most doomed approach would be to simply create stories that felt 'literary.' ↗

— Chris Ware

#carver #comics #confidence #connect #connor

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. ↗

— Simone Weil

#atheist #concentrated #faith #god #impersonal

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#give #mistakes #name #our #simply

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#device #experience #framework #language #reporting