#mira

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles. ↗

— Bob Richards

#equals #ingenuity #miracles #plus #work

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#art #uselessness #utility #art

I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that it is a great nation, and it surprised the world. It may be very difficult to be able to elect a black president in the U.S. - as it was very difficult to elect a woman president in Brazil. ↗

— Dilma Rousseff

#admiration #believe #black #brazil #capacity

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle. ↗

— Arthur Rubinstein

#adopted #alive #houses #i #life

I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. ↗

— Arthur Rubinstein

#alive #change #color #houses #i

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#greatest #greatest problem #man #miracle #problem

Here then we are first to consider a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, written in an age when they were still more barbarous, and in all probability long after the facts which it relates, corroborated by no concurring testimony, and resembling those fabulous accounts, which every nation gives of its origin. ↗

— David Hume

#reason #religion #age

But the past is long, and the future is short. ↗

— Karen Thompson Walker

#miracles #past #age

Here in the last minutes, the very end of the world, someone's tightening a screw thinner than an eyelash, someone with slim wrists is straightening flowers... ↗

— James Richardson

#karen-thompson-walker #the-age-of-miracles #age

I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about - a book open to the sky. It is best read and understood outdoors, and the farther outdoors the better. Or that has been my experience of it. Passages that within walls seem improbable or incredible, outdoors seem merely natural. This is because outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#creation #god #miracles #nature #wonders