#phil

When you can't get what you want, get what you need ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#philosophy #wisdom #life

In the eyeball there is a clash between creation and reflection. The two-way globes of sight are magical revolving doors where the creative spirit meets itself in the created spirit. The eye that surveys the universe is the universe's own eye. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#life

I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#philosophy #tea #life

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance. ↗

— Aberjhani

#creativity #harlem-renaissance #history #horror #humanity

It's not him who's disturbed. But he likes to disturb others--to shake them out of their rut. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#disturbed #learning #life #philosophy #wisdom

Make life easier by living in the present and believing in the future. ↗

— Jonas Eriksson

#philosophy #life

I believe that there's more to life than what we see. ↗

— Heather Graham

#life

They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that. ↗

— Philip C. Plait

#life

I always see the light at the end of the tunnel before I enter the cave ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#philosophical #reality #life