#nat

The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night. ↗

— Yasunari Kawabata

#moonlight #night-sky #men

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression. ↗

— Criss Jami

#consistency #contentment #determination #discontentment #finite

Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own. ↗

— Federico Chini

#inspiration #sculpturing #writing #imagination

Tourists came around and looked into our tipis. That those were the homes we choose to live in didn`t bother them at all. The untied the door, opened the flap, and barged right in, touching our things, poking through our bedrolls, inspecting everything. It boggles my mind that tourists feel they have the god-given right to intrude everywhere. ↗

— Russell Means

#tipi #tourism #tourist #white-people #men

Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words. ↗

— Thomas More

#good-nature #heart #kindness #mankind #men

A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#men

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists -- with it all things are possible. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

#imagination #inspirational #key #imagination

Shrug off the no’s – they are temporary. This is your world. In your world there is only yes. ↗

— Jolene Stockman

#motivational #world-domination #yes #inspirational

For their part, the savage men appear to spend an inordinate amount of time lounging around their lodges, smoking and gossiping among themselves...so that it occurs to me that perhaps our cultures are not so different after all: the women do all the work while the men do all the talking. ↗

— Jim Fergus

#may-dodd #native-americans #men

We are powerful beyond our imagination and most of our potential diminishes because of our inability to choose the right kind of thoughts. ↗

— US MOINUDDIN

#imagination