#abu

When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not. ↗

— John McGahern

#around #becomes #danger #forever #going

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#advertising #environmental #striptease #world

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#imagination #intelligence #requires #true

The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will have a great abundance in material goods, and I think that will soften some of the conflicts we see now. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#approximation #conflicts #everyone #first #future

The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure. ↗

— Alice Miller

#any #articulating #careful #disclosure #every

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. ↗

— Henry Miller

#art #artist #becoming #defeats #end

White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#basically #enormous #groove #marches #militant

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied. ↗

— Christopher Monckton

#use #varied #vocabulary #wide #wife

The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong. ↗

— James Monroe

#alike #among #attack #ceases #defense

There was mental and physical abuse in my family. ↗

— Erin Moran

#family #mental #physical