#si

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music? ↗

— Michael Jackson

#live #music #rhythm #life

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#business #chance #could #dad #everything

We're horribly mundane, aggressively mundane individuals. We're the ninjas of the mundane, you might say. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#horribly #individuals #might #mundane #say

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#desire #even #fame #having #read

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#cannot #conceal #feeling #found #live

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#examination #just #justice #laws #necessarily

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#beauty #boldness #destruction #disease #draws

I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#beautiful #beautiful place #book #bunch #fur

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation. ↗

— Walter Elliot

#crowd #desert #holiness #silence

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. ↗

— Walter Pater

#comes #frankly #give #highest #highest quality