#uf

The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, but between the superfluous and the indispensable. Wisdom, it seems to me, is always poised upon the knowledge of minimums; it might be thought to be the art of minimums. Granting the frailty, and no doubt the impermanence, of modern technology as a human contrivance, the man who can keep a fire in a stove or on a hearth is not only more durable, but wiser, closer to the meaning of fire, than the man who can only work a thermostat. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#simplicity #art

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#audiences #beauty #cinema #experience #film

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#suffering #love

I know I cannot do all the stuff that I did ten years ago. ↗

— Rajendra Prasad

#cannot #did #i #know #stuff

Price of peace could only be valued by people who had suffered loss in the war. ↗

— Toba Beta

#loss #peace #people #price #suffer

...the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true... ↗

— John Geddes

#suffering #love

Hufflepuffs are particularly good finders! ↗

— Cedric Diggory in A Very Potter Musical

#hufflepuff #music

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#music #song #songwriting #music

در غم ما روزها بی گاه شد روزها با سوزها همراه شد ↗

— Rumi

#religion #rumi #spirituality #sufism #religion

To be grounded in an attitude of compassion is to be capable of receiving and welcoming the suffering, which the other is giving us. This does not mean that we suffer for them, but that we offer them possibility of going beyond the separate self in which suffering is harbored. (59) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#compassion #grounded #oneness #receiving #separation