#simply

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#never #obvious #seen #simply #someone

If I just simply let go, and allow my hand, my arm, to be more of a support system, suddenly - I have more dynamic with less effort. Much more, and I just feel, at last, one with the stick, and one with the drum. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#arm #drum #dynamic #effort #feel

The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#hardened #liquid #mass #much #part

The status quo is simply unacceptable. ↗

— Brad Henry

#simply #status #status quo #unacceptable

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy. ↗

— John Green

#happy #hopeful #me #never #responsibility

I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#also #believe #broken #care #complicated

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#confronting #exactly #general #ghost #grappling

My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel. ↗

— John Grierson

#attitude #deriving #good #hegel #i

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#freud #inadequate #model #said #simply

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#contentment #indolence #refined #simply