#sons

The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. But what about the benefits of living harmoniously among extremes? What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing? ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#life #life-lessons #life

Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way. ↗

— Jonathan Rosen

#life-lessons #death

We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#appropriate #case #clearly #different #different reasons

I guess god simply wants me to meet many wrong people before I meet the right one. ↗

— Karla M. Nashar

#beauty

Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#bishops #bless #may #sister #sons

But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked. ↗

— Michael Behe

#any #biochemical #comparison #comparisons #complex

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#ignorance #law #lawyers #only #persons

No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#cut #dance #did #dreams #go

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#hated #i #kid #lessons #like

It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#arrived #degree #embraced #eminence #fame