#nth

The greater puzzle of universal wisdom and beauty that we have strived to honor through our work includes the profound legacies of world artistic and spiritual traditions, the innate integrity of human communities where people seek to live in social harmony, and that regenerative stream of life sustained upon the earth itself as it spins through the cosmos to the music of the spheres. ↗

— Luther E. Vann

#art #art-books #beauty #communities #creativity

Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them. ↗

— Robert James Waller

#economics #marketing #politics #science #art

I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#misanthropy #people

It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#unthinkable #unthought #think

You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too. ↗

— Miranda July

#misanthropy #people #crazy

Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King James - oh, but he worked that book; he held to it like a rope ladder. ↗

— Leif Enger

#scripture #scripture

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#kick #month #most #pants #person

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#peace #supernatural

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth. ↗

— Aberjhani

#dignity #faith #haiku #heaven #human-mortality

I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#obsession #slavery #kill