#r

Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I’m actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it. ↗

— Jenni Schaefer

#feelings #recovery #experience

The cream and hot butter mingled and overflowed separating each glucose bead of caviar from its fellows, capping it in white and gold. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#beauty

Things change when you're not in danger anymore. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#change #danger #life #change

What then is the difference between film and theatre? Or should one not rather ask: what are the differences? Let us be content wi th the reply that the screen has two dimensions and the stage three, that the screen presents photographs and the stage living actors. All the subtler differences stem from these. The camera can show us all sorts of things--from close-ups of insects to panoramas of prairies--which the stage cannot even suggest, and it can move from one to another with much more dexterity than any conceivable stage. The stage, on the other hand, can be revealed in the unsurpassable beauty of three-dimensional shapes, and the stage actor establishes between himself and his audience a contact real as electricity. ↗

— Eric Bentley

#beauty

The sublime beauty was almost hidden withing the castle walls. She believed that the treasured things in life were often hard to find - a pearl in an oyster shell, a kind word in the heat of the moment. ↗

— F.C. Malby

#literary-fiction #beauty

Fraj-ile," I say, pronouncing it the way she does - as if it might be a popular tourist destination in the Pacific, beautiful Fraj Isle, with its white sandy beaches and shark-filled coves. ↗

— Dan Chaon

#fragile #isle #pacific #sharks #beauty

In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty is only a vein sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of ones clothes in a community of blind men. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#truth #beauty

Make us love and obey you so that the works of our hands may always display what your hands have done, until we gaze upon the beauty of your face. ↗

— The Catholic Church

#beauty

I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this is a fool’s procedure . . . buying stock in other people’s businesses. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#business

They were both in their own ways earnest; they both wanted to achieve some worthy end or other, change the world for the better. Such alluring, such perilous ideals! ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#earnest #ideals #change