#tan

There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet. ↗

— Alan Moore

#design

Life has its rhythm ad we have ours. They’re designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity. (285) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#harmony #letting-go #life #rhythm #serenity

The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#call #called #future #important #important thing

I think, actually, that none of us understands anyone else very well, because we're all too shy to show what matters the most. If you ask me, it's a major design flaw. We ought to be able to say, Here, look what I am. I think it would be quite a relief. ↗

— Elizabeth Berg

#people #understanding #design

But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which we were intimately and passionately concerned. There was a time when it was of vital interest to us to find out whether there was a God or not. Obviously the existence or otherwise of a future life must be of the very first importance to somebody who is going to live her present one, because her manner of living it must hinge on the problem. There was a time when Free Love versus Catholic Morality was a question of as much importance to our hot bodies as if a pistol had been clapped to our heads. Further back, there were times when we wondered with all our souls what the world was, what love was, what we were ourselves. ↗

— T.H. White

#morality #understanding-oneself-and-others #youth #age

We interrogate the world by making. ↗

— Bill Burnett

#design-thinking #innovation #inspirational #stanford #design

America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#accepting-change #america #change

Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life. ↗

— Estelle Getty

#being #business #difficult #important #life

Stop wasting so much energy hating your body; it makes you weaker. Everything good in your life begins from the moment you begin accepting, understanding, respecting, and loving your true self. ↗

— Harry Papas

#diet #inspirational #love #positive-mindset #weight-loss

The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga. (Not for nothing does Amazon.com include diet and exercise books on its "Religion and Spirituality" bestseller list. ....) ↗

— Ross Douthat

#exercise #puritanical #purity #vanity #yoga