#pro

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#end #harm #intuitive #power #protect

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. ↗

— John Green

#friendship #missing-person #prom #road-trip #teen-novel

In my opinion, if there is one extremely legitimate use for petroleum besides running wood chippers and front-end loaders to handle compost, it's making plastic for season extension. It parks many of the trucks [for cross-country produce transportation]. With the trucks parked, greenhouses, tall tunnels, and more seasonal, localized eating, can we feed ourselves? We still have to answer that burning question. ↗

— Joel Salatin

#food-production #petroleum #food

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#close #come #dad #i #magic

Art is the proper task of life. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#life #proper #task

Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past. ↗

— Lama Surya Das

#profound #forgiveness

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#forgiveness

Freedom and blood I make my mark and fight for tomorrow. Finally I've got something, Something I can raise my voice for. Fine, tell them who you really want. Fine, well you'll get yours and I'll get mine. ↗

— Sara Quin

#sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin #under-feet-like-ours #you-get-yours-and-i-ll-get-mine

When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain. ↗

— Criss Jami

#betterment #complain #complained #complainee #complainer

He understood privacy and freedom of expression were paramount to liberty, as incompatible as they may appear. One promoted yelling and screaming, while the other encouraged people to retreat and pull within. Yet, cornerstones to American democracy, people needed them both for the lives they took for granted. ↗

— Shelter Somerset

#expression #freedom #liberty #shelter-somerset #freedom