#tan

But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#ideal #influence #monad #only #over

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#also #any #bare #being #cannot

This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#changes #differentiation #eminently #exists #god

If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#away #camera #constantly #eventually #exist

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#day #i #love #many #mystery

I feel I've always got to keep my stand-up because I never want to lose it. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#because #feel #got #i #i feel

I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#comedy #comics #executive #executive producer #got

I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me. ↗

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

#constantly #fulfilling #i #i love #just

My stand-up act is very clean. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#clean #stand-up #very

He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#intensity #misunderstanding #river #ruination #water