#old

I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see. ↗

— Black Elk

#after #earth #for the people #i #i think

They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life. ↗

— Black Elk

#bear #been #brought #chaser #days

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? ↗

— Karl Kraus

#makes #play #sense #soldier #soldiers

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#art #fine #go #holding #holding on

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#differently #going #knew #live #lives

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#clear #first #improve #knowledge #longer

Playing in sold out arenas several nights a week is something I have never experience before. I want to experience that. I want to experience that in my first year and build on that. ↗

— Andrew Bogut

#before #build #experience #first #i

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#encourage #men #scold #them #then

Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness. ↗

— David Bohm

#only #possible #unfolds #wholeness

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#fragments #history #holds #makes #possible