#nit

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#away #beauty #causes #death #eternity

We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#arabian #break #clearly #need #oil

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#diversity #interests #life #light #matter

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#already #biological #christianity #fulfilled #impossible

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#current #depends #entry #growth #into

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#does #exclusive #finite #island #itself

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#groups #individuals #insanity #nations #parties

If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#arts-and-humanities #creative-process #writing #art

We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#femininity #sex #beauty

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#community #incrementalism #world #yourself #change