#sages

It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive. ↗

— Joan Didion

#imagine #messages #survival #survive #imagination

Make peace with your past so you don't mess up the present! ↗

— Marcia Casar Friedman

#self-help #seniors #silver-sages #motivational

Why do so many people start their messages with, "It's me"? Of course it is you. We all know that. But who the hell ARE you? ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#dreams

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#sages #thinking #violence #pain

The aircraft that blew up the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington conveyed several messages to the world, of which one of the least remarked is this: the Muslims of the world are suffering. ↗

— James Buchan

#blew #center #conveyed #least #messages

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance. ↗

— Richard Branson

#africa #balance #better #big #enjoy

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#christian world #condition #epistles #new #new testament

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. ↗

— Lord Byron

#moralist #out #pleasure #pour #sages