#so

Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#god #john-steinbeck #nature #outcasts #society

A combination of fine tea, enchanting objects and soothing surroundings exerts a therapeutic effect by washing away the corrosive strains and stress of modern life. [... It] induces a modd that is spiritually refreshing [and produces] a genial state of mind. ↗

— John Blofeld

#soothing #stress #tea #therapy #art

Learn to appreciate the things you have in the life you're living. It is your present. ↗

— Adem Spahic

#awesome #life #life-is-beautiful #living #present

Where men can't live gods fare no better. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#men

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#reason #responsibility #men

Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#philosophy #men

There are no men like me. There's only me. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#men

A sheriff arrested me. I could be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure my men-in-uniform fetish began that day. The sheriff was hot. And he handcuffed me. I've never been the same. ↗

— Darynda Jones

#men

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#forlorn #lost #old #soldiers #sorrow

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#men