#nit

imagine a scarf as an unlimited canvas ↗

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#yarn #imagination

Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now. ↗

— Dorothea Tanning

#purpose #sanity #art

Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that? ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#death #speak-not-ill-of-the-dead #death

I'd think it strange that the boardinghouse attracted both him and me, but that's what cheap places do -- draw in people with no money. An apartment of my own was unthinkable at that time of my life, and even if I'd found an affordable one it wouldn't have satisfied my fundamental need to live in a communal past, or what I imagined the past to be like: a world full of antiques. ↗

— David Sedaris

#community #living #money #imagination

The Whites always mean well when they take human fish out of the ocean and try to make them dry and warm and happy and comfortable in a chicken coop; but the kindest-hearted white man can always be depended on to prove himself inadequate when he deals with savages. He cannot turn the situation around and imagine how he would like it to have a well-meaning savage transfer him from his house and his church and his clothes and his books and his choice food to a hideous wilderness of sand and rocks and snow, and ice and sleet and storm and blistering sun, with no shelter, no bed, no covering for his and his family's naked bodies, and nothing to eat but snakes and grubs and offal. This would be a hell to him; and if he had any wisdom he would know that his own civilization is a hell to the savage - but he hasn't any, and has never had any; and for lack of it he shut up those poor natives in the unimaginable perdition of his civilization, committing his crime with the very best intentions, and saw those poor creatures waste away under his tortures; and gazed at it, vaguely troubled and sorrowful, and wondered what could be the matter with them. ↗

— Mark Twain

#family

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#inspiration #liberty #political-philosophy #strength #tyranny

The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first time the agency had done that sort of effort. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#done #effort #first #first time #focused

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#christian-living #christianity #gift #god #inspirational

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#discipline #inspirational #self-respect #inspirational

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#inspirational #serenity #inspirational