#la

Story, as I understood it by reading Faulkner, Hardy, Cather, and Hemingway, was a powerful and clarifying human invention. The language alone, as I discovered it in Gerard Manley Hopkins and Faulkner, was exquisitely beautiful, also weirdly and mysteriously evocative. ↗

— Barry Lopez

#story #beauty

Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and merciful — has nothing in common with fatalism or stoicism as these terms are understood in the Western tradition, because its motivation is different. According to Fakhr ad-Din ar-RazT, one of the great commentators upon the Quran: The worship of the eyes is weeping, the worship of the ears is listening, the worship of the tongue is praise, the worship of the hands is giving, the worship of the body is effort, the worship of the heart is fear and hope, and the worship of the spirit is surrender and satisfaction in Allah. ↗

— Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi

#fatalism #islam #quran #stoicism #worship

When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't. ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#attention #bright #depressed #hell #i

I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular. ↗

— Jackie Stewart

#been #champion #dead #definitely #had

We need to put in place an economic system of governance for the euro-zone. ↗

— Francois Fillon

#economic system #governance #need #place #put

I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#came #collaboration #course #designed #garden

At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairies on fire was a well-known signal that meant, ‘Come down to the water.’ It was an extravagant gesture, but we can’t do less. If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look, I see fire: that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#landscape #life #nature #wisdom #beauty

Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#elders #people #representatives #ruling

America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#control #doing #i #jews #know

All I want to do, ever, is play chess. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#ever #i #play #want