#na

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness. ↗

— Saint Ignatius

#causes #does #flesh #form #most

After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.' ↗

— James Iha

#away #coming #could #did #feel

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#believe #god #man #many #nature

I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies. ↗

— James Iha

#artist #bands #emerging #i #i love

I'm Anna Paquin. I'm bisexual and I give a damn. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#bisexual #damn #give #i

But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#everywhere #i #i think #incomplete #nature

Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#defined #force #human #human rights #internalized

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#anniversary #bombings #cities #civil #civil society

It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#beings #eyes #forward #goal #human

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#cannot #coexist #hiroshima #humanity #japan