#sage

Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#chances #doors #entrance #exit #opportunities

You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen walking this earth. ↗

— Michelle Mead

#sydney-sage #the-golden-lily #beauty

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes? ↗

— Umberto Eco

#homer #iliad #justification #mythology #passage-of-time

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#life-message #perfection #business

The photographic image... is a message without a code. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#image #message #photographic #without

You’re presumptuous and arrogant and a whole lot of other things if you think I’ve changed my mind.” “You see, that’s just it.” There he was again, moving into my space. “I think you like the ‘other things. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#indigo-spell #richelle-mead #sydney-sage #change

A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all. ↗

— Jennifer A. Nielsen

#the-false-prince #education

Master Graves was incensed and said, as punishment for my disruption, I would have to write my letters an extra ten times that day. "Ten times the better I'll know them, then." I said. "How strange that you should punish me by ensuring I come out more educated than Roden, who has tried to obey you. ↗

— Jennifer A. Nielsen

#education

If I already intuitively "get" what you're trying to tell me, why should I obsess about remembering it? The danger, of course, is that what sounds like common sense often isn't.... It's your job, as a communicator, to expose the parts of your message that are uncommon sense. (p.72) ↗

— Chip Heath

#communication #express #message #communication

A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#always #befall #changes #environment #healthy