#nothing

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#born #child #does #enlightened #feel

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man. ↗

— Arthur Young

#intending #know #lack #machinery #machines

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#compulsion #ignorance #nothing #receive #resist

I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings. ↗

— Joe Wright

#because #called #endings #fairytale #find

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it. ↗

— William Wyler

#else #get #great #nothing #percent

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#been #born #business #dying #found

I'm serious, Harry, don't go." But Harry only had one thought in his head, which was to get back in front of the mirror, and Ron wasn't going to stop him. That third night he found his way more quickly than before. He was walking so fast he knew he was making more noise than was wise, but he didn't meet anyone. And there were his mother and father smiling at him again, and one of his grandfathers nodding happily. Harry sank down to sit on the floor in front of the mirror. There was nothing to stop him from staying here all night with his family. Nothing at all. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #mirror-of-erised #nothing-but-the-truth #ron-weasley #family

Without love everything can be nothing. Does that make me want to love? No. For me, Ignorance is still better than martyrdom. ↗

— Ira N. Barin

#ignorance #love #martyrdom #nothingness #numbness

Stop crying to the ocean, stop crying over me. Stop worrying over nothing, stop worrying over me. So it's been so long since you said, well I know what I want and what I want's right here with you. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#sainthood #sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin #the-ocean

...strands of your hair and tendrils of the wind spin into nothingness the memories of that day... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #memories #nothingness #poetry-quotes #tendrils