#stan

Everything seems simpler from a distance. ↗

— Gail Tsukiyama

#life #people #simple #simplicity #life

I can't stand making records. ↗

— Eric Church

#making #records #stand

If I lie about truth which you will know somehow later, then you would call me a liar. But If you're willing to dig further about truth that force me do it, then you would understand my reason. But you wouldn't acknowledge it. ↗

— Toba Beta

#reason #secret #truth #understand #life

People ask me, 'Have you ever considered doing stand-up?' To me it would be less offensive if someone asked me, 'Have you ever considered dental implants?' ↗

— David Sedaris

#asked #considered #dental #doing #ever

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#obligations #society #then #understand #you

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus. ↗

— Andrew Solomon

#humility #impetus #motivations #prejudice #truth

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be. ↗

— Donald Miller

#facing-fear #resistance #life

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them. ↗

— Alan Clark

#better #help #how #know #more

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#to-put-it-another-way #life

Why do they make things so complicated?" "So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand.," he said. "Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value." "It's those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#understanding #value #imagination