#pest

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#design #distilled #drawn #experiences #intellect

I'm a peasant I'm the muzhik A pest you're destined to play the music And yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty I'm Indebted to rest respecting it truly ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #beauty #creation #creativity #credit

The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#benefits #deepest #dependence #even #legislation

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#activities #begin #beyond #deepest #desire

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#choices #deepest #enable #fulfill #make

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses. ↗

— Henry Miller

#because #continually #deepest #ever #few

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#becoming #beings #between #capable #constituted

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#deepest #feeling #itself #restraint #shows

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#comedy #deepest #hysteria #moment #writes

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#deepest #more #philosophy #than #wisdom