#sence

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#part #pursuit #seduction #sexuality #sizzle

The face of everyone in mine, the oneness with every blade of grass, the flight with the flocks in the sky, the dance with the clouds across endless skies. The strength with every tree, rooting deep into mother earth, springing forth into the heavens, extending branches of gratitude and love.... Such a privilege, honor and grace, such a gift and joy. ↗

— Patsie Smith

#enlightenment #essence-of-life #inspiration #life #nature

The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#basic #because #collapses #culture #embraces

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#compared #grief #happiness #hates #life

The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters build their numbers across the globe. ↗

— John Conyers

#across #american #american troops #build #casey

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#concerned #contrasted #discipline #far #forms

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#ashamed #brave #cowardly #evasive #eyes

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#creator #gifted #i #me #people

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ↗

— James Douglas

#dark #dawn #garden #good #good idea

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible. ↗

— Charles S. Dutton

#august #could #essence #had #i