#life

the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#death #irreligion #life #religion #beauty

Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#spiritual #values-in-life #beauty

I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life. ↗

— Curt Flood

#area #black #change #every #i

I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived. ↗

— Gennifer Flowers

#i #i feel #i feel like #life #like

Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so manifest – disdain for beauty, execration of literature. I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#life #mankind #beauty

I will remember this day for the rest of my life. There is nothing you can say. It's just like you won the match after the earthquake and it just feels great. ↗

— Elena Vesnina

#day #earthquake #feels #great #i

Such is my relationship with God: on my gigantic canvass of life, I am the one throwing all of the brightly-colored paints, creating genuine splatters, authentic whirlpools of color, beautiful patterns, wonderful streaks and stains and wild accents; God is the one with the paintbrush who stands beside my canvass filling all the intricate and amazing details in between the whirlpools and the streaks! We're happy together! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#god #inspirational-god #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #life-and-living

I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better. ↗

— Dario Fo

#been #better #carriage #could #driving

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

#consider #entertainer #i #i can #life

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable. ↗

— Voltaire

#let us #life #make #only #theorizing