#ness

Our work activities are perhaps most interesting when the element of competition is present. ↗

— Ralph Alfred Habas

#p #art

And this is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor for the one paragraph spread in front of the magazine: This is a serious happiness full of doubts and strengths. I wonder if happiness is possible. It is a state of mind, but I'd hate to be a bore all my life, if only because of those I love around me. Happiness can change into unhappiness just for the sake of change. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#life #change

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#certainly #concerned #delightful #entertaining #even

Part of what we pick up in looking at Jesus in the gospel is a way of viewing the whole world. That worldview informs all our values and deeply shapes our thinking and decision-making. Another part of what we absorb is greater confidence in Jesus' counsel and his promises. This has its own powerful effect on what we fear and desire and choose. Another part of what we take up from beholding the glory of Christ is greater delight in his fellowship and deeper longing to see him in heaven. This has its own liberating effect from the temptations of this world. All these have their own peculiar way of changing us into the likeness of Christ. Therefore, we should not think that pursuing likeness to Christ has no other components than just looking at Jesus. Looking at Jesus produces holiness along many different paths. ↗

— John Piper

#god #holiness #jesus-christ #sanctification #change

My main memories of my father are of his illness. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#his #illness #main #memories

Without question, the balance of power on the planet today lies in the hands of business. Corporations rival governments in wealth, influence, and power. Indeed, business all too often pulls the strings of government. Competing institutions-religion, the press, even the military-play subordinate roles in much of the world today. If a values-driven approach to business can begin to redirect this vast power toward more constructive ends than the simple accumulation of wealth, the human race and Planet Earth will have a fighting chance. ↗

— Ben Cohen

#power #social-entrepreneurship #triple-bottom-line #business

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#belief #calmness #experiment #meet #opponent

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#dominating #follow #human #human mind #mind

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#men #modesty #most #rule #strange

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. ↗

— Henry R. Luce

#any #calculation #continual #dealing #exercise