#tis

You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs. ↗

— Rita Ora

#given #honest #just #songs #tell

I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

#computer #controlled #could #fields #had

That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board. ↗

— Charles Tupper

#board #catholic #catholic schools #educational #minority

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#anything #except #exotic #expertise #foods

This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful. ↗

— Sarah Ruhl

#beauty #loneliness #love #plays #relationships

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#political-philosophy #political

Where there is power, there is resistance. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#leftism #power #resistance #resistance

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#his #satisfied #thirst #turns #well

Practice kindness - particularly when you feel irritated or things are not going well. Kindness hardly ever goes wrong. ↗

— Lewis Richmond

#satisfaction

my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air in the morning, the colour of leaves turning red in autumn and the water's smoothness when i soaked my hands in the basin. ↗

— Anchee Min

#satisfaction