#ought

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent. ↗

— Charles Mackay

#arrow #fly #ill #leave #leaves

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress. ↗

— Ramana Maharshi

#degree #freedom #freedom from #gauge #measures

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#deserved #i #i always #nobel #prize

Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world. ↗

— Daniel Mainwaring

#everything #everything people #guess #hear #i

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#flowers #i #i love #language #love

I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money. ↗

— David Mamet

#hollywood #i #i always #money #raise

When something terrible happens, a lifetime of small events and unremarkable decisions, of unresolved anger, and unexplored fears begins to play itself out in ways you least expect. You've been going along from one day to the next, not realizing that all those disparate words and gestures were adding up to something, a conclusion, you didn't anticipate. And later, when you begin to retrace your steps you see that you will need to reach back further than you could have imagined, beyond words and thoughts and even dreams, perhaps to make sense of what happened. ↗

— Christina Baker Kline

#anger

If the great internet connects us all ... then why are so many of us becoming increasingly isolated? ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal. ↗

— Charles Manson

#never #normal #thought #tried

I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#anything #became #came #decadent #families