#mph

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. ↗

— Martin Short

#concert #criticized #eccentricity #master #mother

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#glorious #great #harder #more #self-realization

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. ↗

— Mark Skousen

#civilized society #force #over #persuasion #sign

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#hall #holding #leading #little #marxist

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be. ↗

— Huston Smith

#nature #ought #rather #than

So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues. ↗

— Huston Smith

#back #concern #emphasis #evolved #face-to-face

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#action movies #evil #exuberant #good #i

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#happiest #holiest #idea #lifted #live

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy. ↗

— Ben Stein

#achieve #be happy #happy #human #human spirit

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#revolution #shift #suffering #trivial