#ness

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#aware #building #contained #energy #whenever

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#appearances #arrogance #arrogant #beautiful #beauty

Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness. ↗

— Billy Ray Cyrus

#brought #church #faith #forgiveness #fortunate

Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business. ↗

— Jack Davenport

#ask #breaking #business #into #mother

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. ↗

— George Orwell

#human-nature #humour #philosophy #art

The car business is a lot like football. In football, you have to win once a week. In the car business, you have to win every day. ↗

— Tom Dempsey

#car #day #every #every day #football

I want to drown in all the ink used to write positive things about my clone and how great he is. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#clones #funny #greatness #humor #ink

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too. ↗

— Alfred Doblin

#comes #concerns #different #get #habit

I saw that office display the other day at the modern gallery. I just didn’t know what I was looking at. A still life of a secretary’s cluttered desk? A sunset over a mountainous landscape of cash? I don’t understand richy people. Think they’re so profound, so much better than everybody else. They’re just trying to compensate for their melancholy, eccentric natures, their loneliness. It must be awful to own a fortune 500 company. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#avant-garde #business #funny #wealth #art

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#art #happiness #life #melancholy #sadness