#ness

[The sound of the wind] was just more proof that the workings of the world were random, that beauty, like suffering, was meaningless, that human life was as pointless as waves on sand. ↗

— Anita Diamant

#beauty #day-after-night #meaninglessness-of-life #random-chance #randomness

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. ↗

— John Maeda

#simplicity #business

For a man, no more beautiful wish has ever found yet than wishing him a life full of kindness! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#beauty

One day when I ventured into the garden to regard its bloom, My eyes beheld on a bower a withered rose. When I inquired what had caused the blight, "My lips for a moment opened in a smile in this garden," it replied. ↗

— Musharraf Ali Farooqi

#life #poetry #sadness #beauty

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy, happiness in life drive of beauty is a joy forever ↗

— Irak.Ibrahim Hussain Didi

#happiness #hope #joy #love #wishing

Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git. Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor. Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#humor #james-potter #remus-lupin #sirius-black #snape

Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as justification to discriminate against others, don’t be upset when others decide you’re an asshole." [Blog post of July 26, 2011] ↗

— Jim C. Hines

#discrimination #law #religion #business

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#business #easy #enemy #enough #friendly

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#business

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. ↗

— Atwood H. Townsend

#study #willful-ignorance #business