#sm

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#civic #countries #dozens #nationalism #other

I wear Spanx to smooth things out. I read that Jessica Alba wears them and if she wears them, then so should I. ↗

— Amanda Bynes

#jessica #out #read #she #should

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray. ↗

— David Byrne

#disease #face #glamour #horror #industry

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#enthusiasm #genius #sincerity #truth #victories

Whatever thought grips the mind at the time of death is the one which will propel it and decide for it the nature of its future birth. Thus if one wants to attain god after death, one has to think of him steadfastly... This is not as simple as it sounds, for at the time of death the mind automatically flies to the thought of an object (i.e. money, love) which has possessed it during its sojourn in the world. Thus one must think of god constantly. ↗

— Stephen Mitchell

#god #hinduism #spirituality #death

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#forget #lincoln #most #politician #professional

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. ↗

— George Byron

#drop #falling #ink #like #makes

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life. ↗

— Jeanne Calment

#always #explain #how #i #keep

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols. ↗

— John Calvin

#even #every #his #idols #master

I have become so accustomed to think “scientifically” that I am afraid even to imagine that there may be something else beyond the outer covering of life. I feel like a man condemned to death, whose companions have been hanged and who has already become reconciled to the thought that the same fate awaits him. ↗

— P.D. Ouspensky

#death