#standing

Time. Time has a way of standing still during the moments that define one’s life. The first kiss, the birth of one’s first child, a paralyzing car accident, hearing of the death of a parent, the last kiss. ↗

— Benjamin M. Strozykowski

#child #first-kiss #standing-still #time #death

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution. ↗

— Abdullah Ibrahim

#change #converge #find #knowledge #mind

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best. ↗

— Mary Astell

#body #every #good #opinion #own

And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead. ↗

— Andre Braugher

#best #best way #crowd #did #education

I can always forgive where I understand. ↗

— Jude Morgan

#understanding #forgiveness

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. ↗

— Steven Brust

#avoid #before #called #conform #conformity

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please. ↗

— Robert Chambers

#always #books #counselors #disinterested #hand

Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is. ↗

— Juan Cole

#arrest #decision #early #his #how

Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that. ↗

— Jill Dando

#friends #go #how #like #limit

Our understanding is correlative to our perception. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#perception #understanding