#ric

Failures can be called ‘strengtheners’ as they make you determined to reach your goal with the lessons they teach. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books, they offer hope — that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe one is saved. ↗

— Anne Rice

#aunt #blackwood #book #farm #lestat

Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials. ↗

— Neil Postman

#conversation #people #shallowness #talking #television

Your dreams will come true, but do not be overly demanding. Be logical – there are not enough mansions for everyone in the world, are there? ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

In reality there are no limitations. They are vibrant and changeable to whatever form you want them to take to realise your goals. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#amusement #age

When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old! ↗

— Stephen Richards

#aged #ageing #ageism #old-age #old-men

Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit of wearing other cultures like T-shirts—the sticker bindis on club kids, sindoor in the hair of an unmarried pop star, Hindi characters inked carelessly on tight tank tops and pale flesh. She knew Americans liked to flash a little Indian or Japanese or African. They were always looking for a little pepper to put in their dish. ↗

— Adam Rex

#india #multiculturalism #pop-culture #age

It so happens that at times your desires tend to disagree with the reality and this is due to the fact that you have not let the two elements complement each other. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

...no matter how rhapsodic one waxes about the process of wresting edible plants and tamed animals from the sprawling vagaries of nature, there's a timeless, unwavering truth espoused by those who worked the land for ages: no matter how responsible agriculture is, it is essentially about achieving the lesser of evils. To work the land is to change the land, to shape it to benefit one species over another, and thus necessarily to tame what is wild. Our task should be to delivery our blows gently. ↗

— James E. McWilliams

#farming #food #politics #age