#not

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#assistance #breaking #broken #broken-glass #commuity

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body. ↗

— George Santayana

#nothing #pierce #sigh #soul #uttermost

Over time, I have come to believe that there is a killer and a saint in all of us. But...I choose to focus on the future and the *potential* in people. ↗

— Agnes Kamara-umunna

#hope #humanitarianism #inspirational #inspirational

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory. ↗

— William Law

#become #duration #else #eternal #finite

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#culture #dead #desires #dying #endlessly

Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#also #areas #been #dies #funny

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#live #miracle #nothing #two #ways

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#day #desolation #every #every day #exile

I'm not perfect at all. ↗

— Liv Tyler

#not perfect #perfect

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#achieved #attained #cannot #only #through