#sustains

Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#art #because #catharsis #even #get

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#literature #metaphor #mind #other #scripture

On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#beautiful #climatic #driven #earth #maintains

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#me #period #shoot #sustains

Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you're doing it for fame and money, don't even bother because it will never happen. The last thing I ever expected was to be paid for this. ↗

— Scott Patterson

#because #bother #doing #even #ever

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself. ↗

— Plato

#best #defeat #defeats #each #first

I've had one very bad ankle injury but otherwise I've been incredibly lucky with my fitness. I've worked hard at it and I've always been fit even compared to other players. That sustains you through various parts of your career, but I am 36. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#am #ankle #bad #been #career

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it! ↗

— Sai Baba

#even #lotus #must #petals #rises

When we allow the walls around our hearts to become rigid, and stay that way, we assign ourselves a slow death. Like the very air and water that flows through our physical body to sustain it, love must flow through our heart to keep it supple, and to keep us truly alive. ↗

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

#flow-of-love #heart #love #love-sustains #supple