#lit

One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. ---The Thousandth Man ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#honor #loyality #friendship

AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE. ↗

— Michelangelo Buonarroti

#spirituality #inspirational

My mom and dad refused to believe that people who had grown up together in peace and friendship, had gone to the same schools, spoken the same language, and listened to the same music, could overnight be blinded by ethnic hatred and start to brutally kill one another. They simply didn't accept as true that less than two years of a multiparty system and competition for power could poison people's brains so much. ↗

— Savo Heleta

#friendship #peace #politics #power #war

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#goddamned #good #helluva #people #politics

نجد أن الفن الحداثي يزداد ابهاما وتعقيدا حتى اصبح فنا نخبويا رغم ثورته على البرجوازية ↗

— عبد الوهاب المسيري

#linguistics #literature #inspirational

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#inspirational

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#distant #familiar #foreign #home #hospitality

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. ↗

— Romain Gary

#inspirational

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work. ↗

— Berthold Auerbach

#completion #dissatisfaction #every #feels #forms

Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or endeavor you've ever concocted, can be stripped from you in an instant. Sooner or later, it will happen. So prepare yourself. Be ready not to be ready. Be ready to be brought to your knees and beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force of cautious habit will save you from this fact: nothing is indestructible. ↗

— Jonathan Evison

#literary #inspirational