#know

O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the earth and rode through forests, and certain things looked so challenging and promising and nostalgic: a star in the evening, a blue harebell, a reed-green pond, the eye of a person or a cow. And sometimes it seemed that something never seen yet long desired was about to happen, that a veil would drop from it all, but then it passed, nothing happened, the riddle remained unsolved, the secret spell unbroken, and in the end one grew old and looked cunning . . . or wise . . . and still one knew nothing perhaps, was still waiting and listening. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#literature #philosophy #understanding #beauty

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. ↗

— William Morris

#believe #house #know #nothing #useful

And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#best #close #dad #gives #good

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#bit #came #know #most #music

Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge. ↗

— Friedrich von Schiller

#knowledge #beauty

I told her I loved the howling sound of her harmonica. That seemed to be the limit of my courage that night, and even those spoken words had to struggle their way out of my mouth. It's all very well for words to build bridges, but sometimes I think it's a matter of knowing when to do it. Knowing when the time's right. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#courage #knowing-when-the-time-is-right #limit #mouth #spoken-words

From a thread of sky to the warp and weft of your being You're beautiful, graceful, like no other; You're pretty damn good as you are. ↗

— Imogen Heap

#beauty

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord. ↗

— J.I. Packer

#problems #business

Knowledge is the heritage of man,but only the courageous inherit it. ↗

— Aivy Denisse Sto.Domingo

#courage

The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#because #best #big #everyone #frankly