#ren

Wir sind das Volk!" Dieser Satz hat uns gelehrt, dass wir, wenn wir unserer Sehnsucht glauben und ihr vertrauen, die Angst verlieren können. Eine Angst, die willfährige Dienerin jeder Art von nicht legitimierter Herrschaft ist, die uns ohnmächtig macht, die uns bindet. In dem Augenblick aber, in dem wir unsere Angst als Angst benennen und Anpassung und Angst als Geschwisterkinder erkennen, sind wir möglicherweise bereit zu erproben: Können wir auch ohne sie leben? In genau diesem Augenblick wachsen uns jene Kräfte zu, die eine ganze Gesellschaft verändern können. ↗

— Joachim Gauck

#civil-rights #courage #democracy #dictatorship #empowerment

If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#drinks #good #house #just #want

In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#auden #renaissance #art

Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him. ↗

— Joyce Meyer

#jesus #joyce-meyer #life #schedule #strength

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle. ↗

— Heraclitus

#cattle #eternal #fame #goal #like

Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#life

The French approach to food is characteristic; they bring to their consideration of the table the same appreciation, respect, intelligence and lively interest that they have for the other arts, for painting, for literature, and for the theatre. We foreigners living in France respect and appreciate this point of view but deplore their too strict observance of a tradition which will not admit the slightest deviation in a seasoning or the suppression of a single ingredient. Restrictions aroused our American ingenuity, we found combinations and replacements which pointed in new directions and created a fresh and absorbing interest in everything pertaining to the kitchen. ↗

— Alice B. Toklas

#art

To be able to possess a machine in such a way is the ultimate show of determination and awareness. It makes one realize that the physicality of our world is a boundary to us only if our will is weak; a true champion can accomplish things that a normal person would think impossible. ↗

— Garth Stein

#determination #art

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#friar-lawrence #love #romeo-and-juliet #shakespeare #tragedy

Powerful words come with powerful intent. Where you have passion, strength, courage, and determination you can accomplish anything! ↗

— K.L. Toth

#courage #goal #intent #intention #passion