#understanding

Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that. ↗

— Jill Dando

#friends #go #how #like #limit

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#depends #extend #finally #human #human life

It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that this celebration of the end of slavery is an important and enriching part of the history and heritage of the United States. ↗

— Mark Foley

#celebration #challenges #end #enriching #future

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. ↗

— Christopher Fry

#birth #brushes #death #may #moth

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#culture #destroy #essential #forms #idolatry

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition. ↗

— Sharon Gless

#contribute #had #his #human #human condition

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind. ↗

— Rockwell Kent

#art #communication #comprehensible #mankind #means

We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#co-operation #compassion #illumination #inspiring-quotes #kindness

You don’t have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#inspiration #mind #mindpower #thinking #thoughts

These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words have been translated into ideas and dreams. That's because a good short story crosses the borders of our nations and our prejudices and our beliefs. A good short story asks a question that can't be answered in simple terms. And even if we come up with some understanding, years later, while glancing out of a window, the story still has the potential to return, to alter right there in our mind and change everything. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#reading #short-story #understanding #change