#rated

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. ↗

— Simone Weil

#atheist #concentrated #faith #god #impersonal

I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#also #always #being #cyberspace #i

It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#although #am #anticipation #buck #collaborated

No one argues that we should have imposed a dictatorship in Afghanistan having liberated the country. Similarly, we weren't about to impose a dictatorship in Iraq having liberated the country. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#afghanistan #country #dictatorship #having #impose

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself. ↗

— Beatrice Wood

#actress #because #become #being #concentrated

Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated. ↗

— James Woods

#being #celebrated #celebration #celebrity #even

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work. ↗

— Jerry Gillies

#concentrated #energy #fail #hold #lot

love. she liberated me to life, she continued to do that. and when she was in her final sickness i went out to san francisco and the doctor said she had 3 weeks to live, i asked her "would you come to north carolina?" she said yes. she had emphysema and lung cancer, i brought her to my home. she lived for a year and a half ..and when she was finally in extraneous she was on oxygen and fighting cancer for her life and i remembered her liberating me, and i said i hoped i would be able to liberate her, she deserved that from me. she deserved a great daughter and she got one. so in her last days, i said "i understand some people need permission to go… as i understand it you may have done what god put you here to do. you were a great worker, you must've been a great lover cause a lot of men and if I'm not wrong maybe a couple of woman risked their lives to love you. you were a piss poor mother of small children but a you were great mother of young adults, and if you need permission to go, i liberate you". and i went back to my house, and something said go back- i was in my pajamas, i jumped in my car and ran and the nurse said "she just gone". you see love liberates. it doesn't bind, love says i love you. i love you if you're in china, i love you if you're across town, i love you if you're in harlem, i love you. i would like to be near you, i would like to have your arms around me i would like to have your voice in my ear but thats not possible now, i love you so go. love liberates it doesn't hold. thats ego. love liberates. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#love #mothers-and-daughters #life

The real essence of work is concentrated energy. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#energy #essence #real #work

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#being #capture #dimension #experience #grasp