#los

I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#children #close #close relationship #dog #experience

There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... . ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#life

We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit ↗

— Aristotle

#life

If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest. ↗

— G. I. Gurdjieff

#friends #lose #make #priest #want

The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

#einstein #europe #few #freud #generations

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer. ↗

— William Gurnall

#faithful #last #longer #lost #never

One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#ball game #disco #game #gay #lost

Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#collapse #could #event #explosion #first

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#different #different way #equally #how #i

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly. ↗

— Paul Haggis

#interest #lose #quickly #really #uneasy