#universal

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ↗

#deceit #revolutionary #telling #telling the truth #time

Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird? ↗

— David Attenborough

#bird #birds #close #creature #ears

Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal. ↗

— Rita Moreno

#story #then #universal

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things. ↗

— Giambattista Vico

#carried #express #follow #ideas #languages

After I nodded, she continued. “We can no longer express with words our emotional states, our revelations, our transformations. Words fail. We are in the very beginning stages of what might take years or even decades of transition. The human race is developing a Universal Language. The practices that will assist humanity—and assist you—in reaching this higher communication will include all the things I'll share with you: vocal exploration, meditation, and energetic practices such as chi gong and yoga. Through these techniques, you are going to completely overhaul your nervous system and your energetic makeup to allow the emergence of this language within you. ↗

— Dielle Ciesco

#universal-language #words-fail #communication

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#fashion #out #soon #universal

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production. ↗

— Angela Carter

#hollywood #into #itself #mass #mass production

...as for unhappy families, star-crossed lovers, and exiled heroes, they are simply universal. ↗

— Elif Batuman

#family

Love is a timeless commodity, and it’s as universal as the air we breathe. ↗