#th

Don't fear God, don't worry about death; what's good is easy to get, & what's terrible is easy to endure. ↗

— Epicurus

#death

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way. ↗

— Mike Norton

#art #aspiration #aspirations #define #destiny

The art of rap is deceptive. It seems so straightforward and personal and real that people read it completely literally, as raw testimony or autobiography. And sometimes the words we use, nigga, bitch, motherfucker, and the violence of the images overwhelms some listeners. It's all white noise to them till they hear a bitch or a nigga and then they run off yelling "See!" and feel vindicated in their narrow conception of what the music is about. ↗

— Jay-Z

#motherfucker #nigga #nigger #rap #art

It is the story that matters not just the ending. ↗

— Paul Lockhart

#math #mathematics #story #art

I want pictures like these. The kind that can capture a moment, make it real, make it last. I need pictures that do more than reflect. I need pictures that are truth. ↗

— Lisa Magnum

#photography #truth #art

Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#companionship #death #devotion #death

As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#living #mystery #witness #art

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111) ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#mythology #spiritual-experience #spirituality #translation #art

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos. ↗

— Rollo May

#existentialism #myth #symbol #art

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#mythology #philosophy #spirituality #art