#my

Seen from that future time, when every commodity the human mind could imagine would flow from the industrial horn of plenty in dizzy abundance, this would seem a scanty, shoddy, cramped moment indeed, choked with shadows, redeemed only by what it caused to be created. Seen from plenty, now would be hard to imagine. It would seem not quite real, an absurd time when, for no apparent reason, human beings went without things easily within the power of humanity to supply and lives did not flower as it was obvious they could. ↗

— Francis Spufford

#economics #marxism #planned-economy #socialism #imagination

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#myth #story #inspirational

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#miracles #mystery #inspirational

Yet have I oft been beaten in the field, And sometimes hurt," said I, "but scorn'd to yield." He smiled and said: "Alas! thou dost not see, My son, how great a flame's prepared for thee. ↗

— Petrarch

#love #mysticism #inspirational

Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one. ↗

— Caroline Myss

#love #myss #mysticism #prayer #forgiveness

Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#forgive #happiness #love #forgiveness

The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify? ↗

— Milan Kundera

#mystery #thought-provoking #inspirational

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#inspirational #science #space-travel #inspirational

I think that our lyrics are definitely dark, but I know for a fact that we pull our inspiration from a million different influences. We listened to everything growing up. Our music isn't just 'opera metal' or 'gothic pop' it's just Evanescence. ↗

— Evanescence

#evanescence #inspirational

Wine?" I asked, ready to order. "I’d rather have Sex on the Beach." He winked at me with a devilish grin. ↗

— J.C. Reed

#love #romantic #sex #steamy #inspirational