#ness

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#destiny #divine #down #fathers #fatigue

And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#become #consciousness #encounter #expand #experiences

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#compassion #connectedness #help #oneness #trouble

We're not show-business people. We have a life. ↗

— Patti LuPone

#life #people

Boldness be my friend. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#friend #my friend

Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything. ↗

— William Shatner

#anything #business #found #i #know

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#any #books #censorship #completeness #ends

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#be happy #certain #change #constitute #departure

The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians. ↗

— Robert Shea

#christians #driven #hierarchical #orthodox #out

As far as I understand, the Second Coming is already here. It's a consciousness. It is not someone who is going to arrive and land in a clearing in the forest. The Hell that they talk of is going to be people creating their own unhappiness, a Hell on Earth. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#arrive #as far as #clearing #coming #consciousness