#ring

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#anything #bringing #country #democracy #genuine

Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#suffering

I think penguins are the most human of all the birds, which may be why people love them. They're cute, they stand upright and they look like they're wearing tuxedos. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#cute #human #i #i think #like

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#almighty god #among #efficacious #give #god

Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#flowering #magnificent #plant #weed

The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test. ↗

— Valentino Rossi

#develop #during #important #new #start

The early ELP albums were pioneering in a way. ↗

— Greg Lake

#early #pioneering #way #were

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#hear #i #lives #mystery #offering

Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#memories #past #real #remembering #surreal

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique. ↗

— Jane Rule

#artists #bearing #because #each #every