#transcend

Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from the lips of the waves. Whatever else his long, unprecedented life might have been, it had been fun. Fun! If others should find that appraisal shallow, frivolous, so be it. To him, it seemed now to largely have been some form of play. And he vowed that in the future he would strive to keep that sense of play more in mind, for he'd grown convinced that play--more than piety, more than charity or vigilance--was what allowed human beings to transcend evil. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#evil #fun #life #piety #play

The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#die #experience #film #great #moment

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time. ↗

— Mary Leakey

#glance #human #intensely #irregularity #left

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. ↗

— Anais Nin

#i #imagination #many #reality #them

Andre Agassi was my rival in the '90s, and I think as we got older we sort of transcended the game. He was probably the best player I ever played over my career. There's a list of players that were tough, but Andre, certainly, he was the most unique. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#andre #best #career #certainly #ever

Great teachers transcend ideology. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#great teachers #ideology #teachers #transcend

Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#cannot #contrary #country #damage #despite

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#beauty #churches #every #feels #heart

Old age. All the facial detail is visible; all the traces life has left there are to be seen. The face is furrowed, wrinkled, sagging, ravaged by time. But the eyes are bright and, if not young, then somehow transcend the time that otherwise marks the face. It is as though someone else is looking at us, from somewhere inside the face, where everything is different. One can hardly be closer to another human soul. ↗

— Karl Ove Knausgård

#eyes #humans #life #old-age #perception

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#art #creativity #epiphanic-moment #epiphany #inspirational