#poses

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#loss #posessions #transience #nothing

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#boredom #controlled #creative #creative man #directed

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#both #career #complexities #different #dignity

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes. ↗

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

#like #misuse #patriotism #political #purposes

The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#different #earlier #eu #kosovo #presences

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#army #enlightened #general #great #great results

Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#awry #budget #family #go #household

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people. ↗

— George W. Bush

#given #great #help #help people #just

Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#countries #economic #great #law #national

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#achieve #alive #associated #being #doing