#lit

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#ancestors #around #arrogant #classes #dead

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die. ↗

— Morris Chestnut

#another #because #bit #burned #character

Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives. ↗

— Morris Chestnut

#destructive #get #grounded #lives #lost

This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is. ↗

— Morris Chestnut

#false #false sense #industry #make-believe #reality

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#attention #awareness #beauty #compassion #creativity

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#best #best intentions #intention #intentions #live

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#environment #existence #fixed #interpreting #just

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#attention #cared #environment #feel #feminine

My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure everything was under control. ↗

— Erika Christensen

#attendant #back #ball #called #control

The thing about that too is that we had the same extras everyday. It was such a community. It was like a microcosmic little town. We were like all little towns people with extras and a crew. ↗

— Erika Christensen

#community #crew #everyday #extras #had