#si

People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.' ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#choice #conscious #fellow #floating #made

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness? ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#cause #correctly #could #ended #failure

Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#cuts #deep #demanding #develop #empathy

The most boring thing in the world? Silence. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#boring thing #most #silence #thing #world

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#heals #health #human #human health #institution

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things. ↗

— Brian Eno

#got #i #interesting #interesting place #might

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#expect #go #good #hungry #i

Back 20 years ago, there was a division between movie actors and TV actors. That's kind of gone away. People who have had a lot of success in movies in the past now want to be on TV. There used to be much more of a quality division between TV and movies, and that's kind of not the case anymore. ↗

— Michael Imperioli

#anymore #away #back #between #case

John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy. ↗

— Michael Imperioli

#acting class #alec #andrew #back #baldwin

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. ↗

— Robert Indiana

#being #each #i #i think #long