#sting

We ate away, reminiscing about our victories over the enemies from different streets and villages and competing with each other in casting curses. A few golden butterflies and dragonflies were fluttering around us. The afternoon air was warm and clean, and the town below us seemed like a green harbor full of white sails. ↗

— Ha Jin

#departure #great-feasting #communism

If you truly love someone, you should be more interested in keeping them happy than in being right. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#law-of-attraction #love #manifestation #manifesting #mind-power

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#details #died #distinguish #ends #every

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#attitude #freedom #fulfilled #gave #grandfather

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#being #contented #existing #fact #here

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#agency #any #connected #dangerous #entrusted

But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#art #art world #collect #comes #contemporary

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters. ↗

— Jessica Alba

#characters #come #complicated #feels #go

The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#aristocracy #away #countries #driven #europe

In order to be discipled by others a person must have a trusting heart, one that listens even when it doesn't fully comprehend or see the end result. ↗

— Ed Townsend

#end #end result #even #fully #heart