#sit

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#between #bit #conformity #consider #exquisite

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. ↗

— Robert M. Parker, Jr.

#appetite #food #good #primary #requisite

Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian. ↗

— Laura Innes

#beyond #comes #explore #gay #intention

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#diversity #interests #life #light #matter

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#does #exclusive #finite #island #itself

If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow. ↗

— Kathy Ireland

#appearance #because #business #disappointed #financial

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#adversity #character #give #him #man

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#also #beauty #birth #gives #opposite

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#diversity #heart #individuality #love #mind

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#women