#ness

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. ↗

— Henry St. John

#body #collective #enjoyed #every #happiness

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#company #feelings #good #good company #kept

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you! ↗

— Don Johnson

#alcohol #business #divorces #else #everything

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#furs #gems #weaknesses #were

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness. ↗

— Norah Jones

#always #audience #awkwardness #been #being

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving. ↗

— Tom Jones

#business #changed #itself #keeps #key

To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on. ↗

— Florence Griffith Joyner

#being #both #concentration #dream #excellence

But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness. ↗

— Donald Judd

#art #art work #certain #certain degree #degree

Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#belief #consciousness #cultures #developed #earth

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#business #control #equality #excessive #exclusive