#sense

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death. ↗

— Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

#life #living #sense-of-self #death

The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#education

Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds. ↗

— Libba Bray

#nonsense #silly #humor

Lose your mind and come to your senses. ↗

— Frederick S. Perls

#mind #senses #inspirational

Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#moon #sense-of-wonder #stars #moon

Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#experiences #religion #experience

Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#nonsense

in nonsense is strength ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#nonsense

I don’t drink water, because if water can erode rock, think what it can do to flesh.
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— Jarod Kintz

#drinking #erode #erosion #flesh #geology

No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#reading #nonsense