#si

More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them. ↗

— John Shadegg

#american citizen #assimilation #becoming #citizen #home

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#cannot #created #destroyed #doctor #passion

Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge—promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which the subject, overwhelmed by the object, has, as it were, fused into a single point or into nothing… like the movement of hope and love toward God, which is genuine and selfless only where it has assumed the attitude of pure worship of God for his own sake. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#philosophy #theology #wonder #worship #attitude

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#film #first #i #i think #leading

The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#depression #desire #far #get #go

That's the beauty and mystery of life. You have to let it unfold on its own. If you are too rigid about how you want it to play out, you kill the essence of it. ↗

— Laxmi Hichkad

#beauty

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving. ↗

— Merle Shain

#act #begs #blessing #either #gives

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#covet #honor #i #i am #most

Good teams are committed to the team mission and to each other personally. Good leaders inspire and build this commitment and trust. ↗

— Lee Ellis

#leadership #military #business

I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with. ↗