#na

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#apparently #both #cambridge #complex #difficult

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#inspirational #dreams

But, you know, I just did a big trip in the spring to Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand, and that's when I bought a Kindle. I have like 15 books on this one little gizmo. But when I came home, the first night I picked up the book that was on my nightstand and I went right back to that. ↗

— Lisa See

#big #book #books #bought #cambodia

You thinkin bout the time I shot you and you rose from the dead? It only happens once in your life." He turned to Carol again and she said: "Were you actually aiming at his hat?" "I hit it didn't I? ↗

— Elmore Leonard

#raylan #raylan-givens #life

Music is one of the easy things to eliminate because of budget cuts, but it's important to give kids the avenue to express themselves. ↗

— Ted Poe

#because #budget #budget cuts #cuts #easy

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#philosophy #theology #change

It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the gravity of inertia, apathy and laziness, (known in Sankrit as the quality of tapas) that overwhelms this age. Despite this seemingly gloomy prognosis, there is a way out of this predicament for those with the will and stamina to awaken from the rampant lethargy, within and outside of themselves, to take action. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#left-hand-path #religion #strength #tantra #zeena-schreck

Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life-lessons #dating

It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#inspirational

I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#bed #come #get #go #hollywood