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There are two types of fights. Whenever we are in battle, we must be one of the two. The fight for life or…the fight for pride!"~ ↗

— Jūshirō Ukitake

#life

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending. ↗

— George Eliot

#limit #life

Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma). One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa. Rely on your Self; self-reliance ↗

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#life-philosophy #life

Princes always are always happy to see developing among their subjects the taste for agreeable arts and for superfluities which do not result in the export of money. For quite apart from the fact that with these they nourish that spiritual pettiness so appropriate for servitude, they know very well that all the needs which people give themselves are so many chains binding them. When Alexander wished to keep the Ichthyophagi dependent on him, he forced them to abandon fishing and to nourish themselves on foods common to other people. And no one has been able to subjugate the savages in America, who go around quite naked and live only from what their hunting provides. In fact, what yoke could be imposed on men who have no need of anything? ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#america #rulers #art

If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, ridiculous, or truly pitiable, he is lord and God thereof. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#beauty #creativity #motivational #art

Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#life

Optimism was for children. Once you reached adulthood then you had to join the rest of the world as a realist - life was a bag of shit you were expected to pay for. ↗

— N.C. Thomas

#pessimism #realism #life

Time is just quantified eternity. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#philosophy #spirituality #time #life

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#audiences #beauty #cinema #experience #film

Having you in my life has mended my soul, helped me to believe I'm more... that I matter. Knowing you has made me whole. ↗

— RaShelle Workman

#michael #venus #life