#ren

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#know #learn #lies #life #never

Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed. ↗

— Quintus Ennius

#daring #deed #foe #friend #here

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender. ↗

— Brian Eno

#emotion #feel #go #let go #listening

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#comes #europe #japan #lightness #new

I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community. ↗

— Ted Stevens

#community #concerns #current #efforts #i

When I found out I had to take off my shirt in 'Teen' movie, I panicked and hit the gym. I was like, 'It's going to be on film, documented, for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle.' ↗

— Chris Evans

#children #documented #film #found #going

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#crooked #different #god #having #lead

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#between #difference #knowledge #lack #others

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors. ↗

— Thaddeus Stevens

#children #enter #estates #forth #handle

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother? ↗

— Gabrielle Hamilton

#becoming-your-parents #family #growing-up #humor #parents