#nothin

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. ↗

— Jacob Riis

#crack #go #hammering #help #his

And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near, by the unwarned charm of its breath, nothingness now revealed itself: that permanent night upon which the stars in their expiring generations are less than the glinting of gnats, and nebulae, more trivial than winter breath; that darkness in which eternity lies bent and pale, a dead snake in a jar, and infinity is the sparkling of a wren blown out to sea; that inconceivable chasm of invulnerable silence in which cataclysms of galaxies rave mute as amber. ↗

— James Agee

#infinity #nothingness #age

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#everything #excuse #had #impossible #lead

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#i #i can #less #life #nothing

I invent nothing, I rediscover. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#invent #nothing #rediscover

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see. ↗

— Henri Rousseau

#i #i see #makes #me #nature

I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version. ↗

— Kelly Rowland

#because #crying #did #hearing #i

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. ↗

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

#anything #because #dream #immune #needless

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#attempt #fail #great #i #nothing

The cholera most forcibly teaches us our mutual connection. Nothing shows more powerfully the duty of every man to look after the needs of others. ↗

— Titus Salt

#cholera #connection #duty #every #every man