#emo

Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever. ↗

— Michael Poeltl

#enlightenment #forever #life-lessons #memories #spirituality

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#been #came #childhood #hadn #having

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender. ↗

— Brian Eno

#emotion #feel #go #let go #listening

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear. ↗

— Brian Eno

#democracy #disappear #easy #very

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#calculation #compensation #emotional #fun #like

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy. ↗

— Darin Strauss

#family