#nat

The determination to win is the better part of winning. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#determination #part #win #winning

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#cosmos #divorced #each #fractured #fragmented

Would you believe I devise my entire show based upon a single one of these jewels? It's true I choose a color from my collection (...) and with it I can imagine a whole world. ↗

— Dita Von Teese

#burlesque #dita-von-teese #jewels #p- #art

There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#death

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#extremely #foer #incredibly #jonathan #living

The earth has music for those who listen. ↗

— George Santayana

#music

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. ↗

— Albert Camus

#man #mankind #philosophy #nature

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#distance #elimination #itself #people #precisely

It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading. ↗

— Mary Archer

#balance sheets #extraordinary #fact #fascinating #make

Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more inclined to listen to ballads. ↗

— William Bell

#around #ballads #cole #enough #frank