#revere

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#body #causes #everything #find #first

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere. ↗

— Rebecca West

#bear #best #cutting #dark #dark places

Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time. ↗

— Bill Williams

#john #john paul #leaders #man #most

I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great. ↗

— Pharrell Williams

#i #i do #just #revered #should

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue. ↗

— James Wolcott

#average #average american #conservatives #diner #faith

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise. ↗

— Edward Young

#revere #thyself #yet

Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#better #better chance #born #both #chance

Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune. ↗

— Owen Glendower

#cousin #dread #fortune #good #good fortune

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape. ↗

— William Godwin

#human #owe #reverence #shape

Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#better #day #days #deserved #doubt