#tan

Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#chapter- #music

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway. ↗

— Simeon Strunsky

#buses #democracy #less #library #more

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#legacy #nature #nature

those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#anavataptanagarajapariprchchha #king #nagas #questions #sutra

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#importance #important #minds #religion #the-truth

The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#behavior #bible #civilization #describes #god

Don’t water your testimony with your righteous expectations of church members. Their imperfection will disappoint you every time and cause you to leave every church you try to join. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#beliefs #expectations #judgement #religion #selfrighteousness

Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female. ↗

— Barbara W. Tuchman

#barbara-tuchman #catholic-church #christianity #religion #religion

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. ↗

— Joan Didion

#innocence #self-acceptance #respect

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents. ↗

— Mark Twain

#respect