#bra

A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#library #life

A little reckless bravery may end up saving your life. ↗

— Henry Chancellor

#bravery #life #saving #true #life

Latent brain functions can be enabled by force majeure when we are facing the weirdness of an unknown reality. ↗

— Toba Beta

#force-majeure #latent #life #reality #secret

On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#heroic #individual-will #noble #prayer #strength

Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#fighting #life #wisdom #life

The belief that a person has a share in an unknown life to which his or her love may win us admission is, of all the prerequisites of love, the one which it values most highly and which makes it set little store by all the rest. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#marcel-proust #proust #remembrance-of-things-past #swann-s-way #life

A misleading perception or false belief is increasingly being perpetuated that the unconscious or the intuitive is all that really matters in any spiritual endeavor, and that the conscious, rational, logical, analytical mind is the mortal enemy of spiritual awareness and soul growth. ↗

— Anthon St. Maarten

#consciousness-mind-brain #ego #false-belief #intuition #intuitive

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body’s breath, and the strings’ wails and moans are echoes of the body’s music. It is the body’s vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#jazz #life #music #vibrations #life

without the power to concentrate that is to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure obedience true life is impossible. Mind control is the first element of a full existence. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#control #existence #life

She loved the way her city always sounded like it was celebrating. ↗

— Sarah Pekkanen

#city-life #new-york-city #life