#matter

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#except #ideal #ideals #matter #nothing

If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with - if you keep it out, it's not a goal. ↗

— Mark Lawrenson

#goal #goalkeeper #keep #matter #out

The gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry, or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile … ↗

— Robert F. Kennedy

#joy #things-that-matter #beauty

For every(spiritual)community there is an object of discord,tension and diorder(fitnah),and for my community,this object is money ↗

— Anonymous

#beautiful #community #daily-life #depression #discord

Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#change

No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds. ↗

— Red Skelton

#forget #heartache #helps #laughing #matter

The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences in altered states of consciousness. The previous fear of death is typically quelled. If the individual generally remains thereafter in the existential state of awareness, the deep internal feeling of eternity is quite profound and unshakable. ↗

— Edgar D. Mitchell

#consciousness #eternity #life #matter #mind

Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live our lives as a giant struggle between good and evil, Satan and God, despair and love. Whenever despair wins, it is the natural way. Whenever love wins, it is a moment of grace. When love is victorious and defeats despair completely, you've reached the path of grace. ↗

— Haim Shapira

#things-that-matter #wisdom #life

Even if things aren't going the way we want right now, we will always get through it. ↗

— Stacey T. Hunt

#faith #going #hope #right-now #things

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears. ↗

— Marcus Porcius Cato

#belly #citizens #ears #fellow #fellow citizens