#ow

The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recognition. ↗

— Timothy Findley

#experience #knowledge #perception #recognition #art

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred. ↗

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

#everyone #hatred #play #role #should

All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#artist #growing-up #life #life-and-living #reality

When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing. ↗

— Criss Jami

#funny #funny-but-true #genius #geniuses #gift

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren. ↗

— Brock Yates

#four #grandchildren #grown #i #tiny

I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way. ↗

— Adam Yauch

#basketball #certain #enjoy #flow #fluidity

Amory, sorry for them, was still not sorry for himself - art, politics, religion, whatever his medium should be, he knew he was safe now, free from all hysteria - he could accept what was acceptable, roam, grow, rebel, sleep deep through many nights... There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for his lost youth - yet the waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his soul, responsibility and a love of life, the faint stirring of old ambitions and unrealized dreams... And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use to the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#humility #knowledge #life #love #self-knowing

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#extreme #opinions #souls #tend #toward

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#always #deed #light #lights #looks

Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art ↗

— Gary Hopkins

#energy-healing #enlightenment #facts #god #higher-self