#wit

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. ↗

— Max Muller

#blossom #cannot #flower #live #man

It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division. ↗

— Hans Kung

#change #church #community #division #few

Candy within reach and then I have to go on a diet. ↗

— Stieg Larsson

#diet

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again. ↗

— Laurel Lee

#beyond #could #forgive #form #grooves

The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck. ↗

— Thomas More

#bay #channel #danger #enter #great

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. ↗

— John Morley

#depart #found #great #great business #guiding

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#nothing #outside #state #within

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff. ↗

— Sojourner Truth

#humanity #poor #religion #stuff #very

Good wits will jump. ↗

— George Villiers

#jump #will #wits

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#contemplation #day #days #fatal #human