#or

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#did #hope #human #human beings #interested

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#ever #i #i can #limitations #more

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad? ↗

— Tom Clancy

#bad #communications #ever #happier #how

The task of all Christian scholarship—not just biblical studies—is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it, and to make it serve the good of man. It is an abdication of scholarship when Christians do academic work with little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to make his manifold glory known and loved, then to treat any subject without reference to God’s glory is not scholarship but insurrection. ↗

— John Piper

#glory-of-god #beauty

When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#goals-in-life #humor #inspirational #wish #funny

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#buddhism #buddhist #comes #created #deeply

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#congress #cover #i #immortal #library

America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#america #because #country #everybody #information

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#ornaments #profound #thoughts

Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers. ↗