#though

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#among #impure #light #like #passes

My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#also #although #better #body #compete

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#idealism #just #politics #thought #will

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#been #emotion #eradicated #last #nothing

I never thought of myself as handsome. ↗

— Willie Aames

#i #myself #never #thought

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#after #began #christianity #completely #fact

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#art #differ #good #good art #household

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#enjoyed #light #lived #loved #small

One of our most difficult realizations was that - in the course of two years - a connecting hub in St. Louis had gone from something we thought we needed to something we could no longer afford. ↗

— Gerard Arpey

#connecting #could #course #difficult #gone

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#deal #get #give #giving #good