#lit

...our minds are driven to answer questions that far transcend the bounds of our own lives. ↗

— Terryl L. Givens

#spirituality #life

Impending doom, it was a familiar sweater, we all wore it and as scratchy as it felt against our skin, we kept it on. ↗

— Holly Hood

#life #love #reality #life

Life is all about balance. Since I have only one leg, I understand that well. ↗

— Sandy Fussell

#disability #life #life

As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#bigger #encounter #him #life #make

Literary art's sudden, startling truth and beauty make us feel, in the most solitary part of us, that we are not alone, and that there are meanings that cannot be bought, sold or traded, that do not decay and die. This socially and economically worthless experience is called transcendence, and you cannot assign a paper, or a grade, or an academic rank, on that. Literature is too sacred to be taught. It needs only to be read. ↗

— Lee Siegel

#literature #art

Intuition means to follow the silent whispers of the inner in a basic “yes” to life. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#life #meditation #spirituality #life

Voting is a civic sacrament. ↗

— Theodore Hesburgh

#civic #sacrament #voting

No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#life-lessons #personality #society #life

Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy. ↗