#ture

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#assess #endures #how #i #knows

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#basketball #because #good #good student #happy

All nature is but art unknown to thee. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#nature #thee #unknown

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. ↗

— Antonio Porchia

#because #flowers #hope #tomorrow #without

Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#contentment #days #excitement #flow #i

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture. ↗

— Leila Josefowicz

#audience #demanding #effort #gesture #i

Thank God I have seen an orange sky with purple clouds. ↗

— Erica Goros

#beauty #god #gratitude #inspiration #love

My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were sharing. ↗

— Alexandra Kerry

#cameras #campaign #captured #complicated #covered

Chess is mental torture. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#mental #torture

Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored. ↗

— David Suzuki

#calculations #difficult #dollar #economic #ignored