#iona

As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#american #begin #convenient #critics #imperfections

The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful. ↗

— Gary Shteyngart

#attitude

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#creating #humor #inspirational #humor

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#beauty

A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome. ↗

— Leopoldo Lopez

#give #larger #national #outcome #people

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history. ↗

— James Lovelock

#bad people #capable #commit #evolutionary #genocide

From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom. ↗

— Seth Low

#devotion #freedom #gather #individual #inspiration

I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging. ↗

— Chad Lowe

#character #did #emotionally #goes #hiv

We have to be rid of all paradigms, I mean all, and go to that place where all paradigms dissolve. That’s what this certainly is all about; especially the scary paradigms. Do you really think that we are all going to Hell, or even Heaven? This is not about punishment and reward. We already have the reward. It’s the grace of this journey into the heart of the Creator and being a part of that creation. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand. ↗

— Gary Lucas

#case #certain #certain way #differently #emotional