#ness

My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about. ↗

— Julius Erving

#adrian #business #first #got #gray

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#human #invented #loneliness #music

I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness. ↗

— Clea Duvall

#feel #gotten #i #making #people

Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts... for when feasts are laid and classical music is played, where champagne is drunk once the sun has sunk and the season of summer is alive in spicy bloom, and beautiful women fill the room, and are generous with laughter and smiles... these things fill men's hearts with joy and remind one that life’s bounty is not always fleeting but can be captured, and enjoyed. It is in writing about this scene that I relive this night in my soul. ↗

— Roman Payne

#bounty #champagne #classical-music #feasts #happiness

I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can. ↗

— Aaron Eckhart

#i #i can #i do #i think #just

I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship. ↗

— Aaron Eckhart

#been #best #business #i #i think

These examples suggest what one needs to learn to control attention. In principle any skill or discipline one can master on one’s own will serve: meditation and prayer if one is so inclined; exercise, aerobics, martial arts for those who prefer concentrating on physical skills. Any specialization or expertise that one finds enjoyable and where one can improve one’s knowledge over time. The important thing, however, is the attitude toward these disciplines. If one prays in order to be holy, or exercises to develop strong pectoral muscles, or learns to be knowledgeable, then a great deal of the benefit is lost. The important thing is to enjoy the activity for its own sake, and to know that what matters is not the result, but the control one is acquiring over one’s attention. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#happiness #art

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#call #compassion #god #god love #goodness

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#darkness #finds #light #nearest #sorrow

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too. ↗

— Aberjhani

#crying #hopefulness #inspiration #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-quotes