#beau

This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name. The consciousness that animates us is itself central to this mystery and the ground for any experience we might wish to call 'spiritual.' No myths need be embraced for us to commune with the profundity of our circumstance. No personal God need be worshiped for us to live in awe at the beauty and immensity of creation. No tribal fictions need be rehearsed for us to realize, one fine day, that we do, in fact, love our neighbors, that our happiness is inextricable from their own, and that our interdependence demands that people everywhere be given the opportunity to flourish. ↗

— Sam Harris

#love #mystery #reason #religion #spirituality

The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important. ↗

— Wayne Rooney

#better #goals #important #important thing #needed

Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,—in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home? ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#possessions #technology #travel #beauty

I have a beautiful wife and two beautiful children, and every day I am paid to do what I love. ↗

— Treat Williams

#beautiful #beautiful wife #children #day #every

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty. ↗

— Edward Witten

#basic #basic things #beauty #different #different shapes

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#beauty #because #feeble #force #right

I am an ordinary woman who did extraordinary things. The first to qualify as a ground engineer. The first to fly to Australia single-handed. A million people lined the streets of London when I came home. I waved to them from an open-topped car like the queen, the queen of the air. ↗

— Kate Lord Brown

#ata #beauty

You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#because #burned #churches #culture #diversity

Australia is so cool that it's hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful; so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago. ↗

— Mary-Kate Olsen

#angeles #australia #beaches #beautiful #cool

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality. ↗

— Ovid

#deepest #enhance #highest #intensify #reality