#iona

I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space. ↗

— Donald Miller

#community #donald-miller #inspirational #stories #family

We will host the Asean summit in November this year. It will be an occasion to reflect on our achievements collectively and to look at how Asean can maintain its leading role in regional and international cooperation. ↗

— Hassanal Bolkiah

#asean #collectively #cooperation #host #how

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#emotional #journey #part #single #subconscious

Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for someone or bring a smile to his face, it gives your life meaning. Never doubt your value, little friend. The world would be a dismal place without you in it. (tweaked version of a passage from Scandal in Spring) ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#inspirational #self-worth #faith

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#architecture #basis #enemy #necessary #rationalism

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. ↗

— George Boole

#beyond #commendation #does #faculties #high

What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing--a very hard thing... But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things? ↗

— Robin McKinley

#inspirational #inspirational

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#architecture #exceptional #radiated #vitality

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time. ↗

— David Bowie

#back #completely #felt #i #just

Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#character #come #different #even #fictional