#quotes
@fishlakenext
"One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved, changed.
The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence. "--"Permanently," by Kenneth Koch, from Selected Poems, 1950-1982 (Vintage).
#AmWriting #Writing #WritingCommunity #Author #AuthorQuote #Quotes
[ID: “Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?
#People have the right to resist annihilation”
― Arundhati Roy /END ID]
#quotes #quote #antifascism #classwar
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People have the right to resist annihilation”
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Tigritude by Wole Soyinka
The quote about Tigritude below is a reaction of the first generation of Anglophone writers in the 60s to the older tradition of French Négritude theory (Léopold Sédar Senghor & Aimé Césaire). […]
Life hack for the day: “By doing things, we can't be stopped by thinking things.” — Michael Matthews from The Little Black Book of Workout Motivation #lifehacks #quotes
"One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved, changed.
The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence. "--"Permanently," by Kenneth Koch, from Selected Poems, 1950-1982 (Vintage).
#AmWriting #Writing #WritingCommunity #Author #AuthorQuote #Quotes
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
-- H. L. Mencken
⬆ #Quotes #HLMencken #Fear #Politics
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Protest #MarchForOurLives #Florida
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
(Albert Einstein)
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
“Your past haunts you
Your present overwhelms you
Your future scares you
Yet you survive”
― Lidia Longorio
“We can’t absorb it all. We know too much, too quickly, and one of the worst effects of this avalanche of technology is the loss of compassion.”
― Madeleine L'Engle
Guess the #movie? #Quote by Asia Argento.
Download and play from #AppStore & #GooglePlay!
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Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants.
-- Goethe
⬆ #Quotes #Goethe #TheMajority
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
Happy Sunday! 🙏💙🤍
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
**Immanuel Kant
Crater Lake NP, #Oregon 🇺🇸
©️ Jake Guzmann
#photooftheday #photo #photography #landscapephotography #naturephotography #landscape #nature #Art #mastoart #winter #quotes #sunday
I am finished see you next time for more washing routines. Here a Quote to reflect on the work done: Rest in reason; move in passion. by Kahlil Gibran #quotes
If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men. #inspiration #quotes #bahai
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
― Kahlil Gibran
Experience is NOT what happens to you; it is what YOU DO with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley
⬆ #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Experience
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
Entire and selfless devotion is what is most needful. The brighter our torch burns, the more light will it give and the more readily will it impart its blaze to others... #inspiration #quotes #bahai
"We are fantastically privileged to exist at all, but then we also have the privilege of understanding this beautiful world in which we find ourselves. That should make us all the more eager to soak up as much as we possibly can of understanding our world and our place in it before we die."
"Mysteries do not lose their poetry when solved. Quite the contrary: the solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle."
—Richard Dawkins, “Unweaving the Rainbow”
Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.
-- Chinese Proverb
⬆ #Quotes #ChineseProverb #OpenMind #SelfMastery
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida
Quotes by Frederick Douglass, former enslaved person, orator, newspaper publisher, and greatest abolitionist of the 19th century.
“Miraculously recover or die. That's the extent of our cultural bandwidth for chronic illness.”
― S. Kelley Harrell
“Courage wasn't only fighting your circumstances; sometimes making peace with your circumstances required more courage.”
― Sonali Dev
Adorno on the demise of irony:
"Irony’s medium, the difference between ideology and reality, has disappeared. The former resigns itself to confirmation of reality by its mere duplication … There is not a crevasse in the cliff of the established order into which the ironist might hook a fingernail …."
Quoted in Splinters in Your Eye: Frankfurt School Provocations - Martin Jay
Guess the #movie? #Quote by Groucho Marx.
Download and play from #AppStore & #GooglePlay!
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"I don't think that humankind is worthy of trust when we can't let go of war, draw borders between neighboring countries, seek to become richer than others, find joy in defeating others at sports, and choose someone of the opposite gender based on their appearance." - Yoko Taro
Unlock knowledge and savor it like wine;
Defeat death and free yourselves from it!
— Ibn Arabi
https://www.youtube.com/@Yahia.Lababidi
Sculpture: Sylph/Azrael by Volodymyr Tsysaryk
#art #artist #quotes #philosophy #spirituality #religion #Islam #inspiration #reading #meditation #knowledge #death #life #books
"You desire to tame everything, but if you just stand still and feel for a moment you would know how everything yearns to be wild" - Jim Dodge
A quotation from Homer:
«
An evil doom of some god was my undoing, and measureless wine.
[ἆσέ με δαίμονος αἶσα κακὴ καὶ ἀθέσφατος οἶνος.]
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/homer/65119/
#quote #quotes #quotation #alcohol #divinewrath #doom #drunkenness #excuse #fate #gods #wine
“Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
We must strive to be better, lest we be put in the same basket
Hmmm, I think I just invented a quote, lol
Isn't it obvious that Chicken Little represents the sane vision, and that Homo sapiens' motto, "Let's go shopping." is the cry of the true lunatic?
-- Twelve Monkeys
⬆ #Quotes #TwelveMonkeys #Humans #Insanity
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork
“We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: "He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.”
― Chinua Achebe
Heard at a ML conference: "The science you can do with this is exciting but unclear" #quotes #astrodon #AcademicChatter #ai #machinelearning
It's funny that people are concerned about being exposed to a naked body on the Internet, but they're not concerned about the ramifications of being exposed to this onslaught of commercialism from an early age and its impact on the value systems of children.
-- Karen G. Schneider (librarian)
⬆ #Quotes #KarenGSchneider #Commercialism
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
Thank you for this day. 🌇
“An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” — Henry David Thoreau
The Agora (sculpture):
https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/chicago_s_publicartagora.html
#tyftd #ThankYouForThisDay #goodMorning #gratitude #ritual #thankYou #goodVibes #GoodMorningPhoto #Chicago #art #DailyPhoto #POTD #PhotoOfTheDay #sculpture #BlackAndWhitePhotography #bnwPhotography #quotes
"Parenting advice" from #mostlyharmless by #douglasadams
(The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series)
@bookstodon @bookstadon #scifi #funny #books #quotes #reading #thehitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #douglasadams #jokes
This amazing woman's remarkable life needs to be made into a biopic STAT.
Shirley Chisholm Quotes (For inspiration and motivation)
#quotes #ShirleyChisholm #BlackHistory365 #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon
Powerful quotes by James Baldwin
As long as a man does not find his own faults, he can never become perfect. Nothing is more fruitful for man than the knowledge of his own shortcomings. The Blessed Perfection says, "I wonder at the man who does not find his own imperfections.”
‘Abdu’l-Bahá
"November was a gap in time, a crack between autumn and the long Polish winter."
Joanna Bator "Dark, almost night"
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#photo #photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #bnw #BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead #filmphotography #quotes #Poland
A quotation from Rushdie, Salman:
«
The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/rushdie-salman/64886/
#quote #quotes #quotation #dancing #distraction #extremism #fanatic #oppression #pleasure #terrorism
Happy Monday!🙏😍🤍💙
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
**Jack London
Emerald Lake #Colorado 🇺🇸
©️ İlhan Eroğlu
#photooftheday #photo #photography #landscapephotography #naturephotography #landscape #nature #Art #mastoart #quotes #monday #lake #mountains #mist
Happy Sunday! 🙏😍🍂🍁☕️
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
**Martin Luther King, Jr.
Autumn in #Japan 💴
©️ Daniel Kordan
#photooftheday #photo #photography #photos #landscapephotography #NaturePhotography #landscape #nature #Art #mastoart #quotes #mountains #autumn #sunday
We think today solely from the perspective of what would make it easier for a person to use a computer. It may be time to ask what will make it easier for computers to deal with humans.
-- Nicholas Negroponte
Life is a fight against entropy. When in doubt, organize something. You'll feel more alive.
-- Tristan Harward (@trisweb)
⬆ #Quotes #TristanHarward #Entropy #Life #Organization
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico
🇺🇸 Patriotism Through Volunteerism
▪️Non-profits cannot do their work without community partners, donors and volunteers.
✅Getting involved with an organization, no matter how big or small, allows for growth on so many levels.
🎯Be the reason someone feels seen, heard, and supported.
#helpothers #communitysupport #nonprofit #foodinsecurity #homelessness #giveback #charity #payitforward #recovery #family #patriotism #volunteer #quotes
“We spend half of our days dreaming
and the other half sleepwalking.
*
What is actually meant by freewill
is not that we can switch the stations of our lives,
but that we may fine-tune the reception
or accentuate the static”
https://www.youtube.com/@Yahia.Lababidi
#books #bookstodon #quotes #writing #WritingCommunity #poetry #wisdom #meditation
Radha-Krishna: Sacred Love Stories by P.R. Vadgama - #bookreviews #books #quotes
This is a short story collection. Some stories were very good 4 stars.
Some stories were meh 2-1 stars.
My favourite quote from the book is,
"Love is watering yourself and watching the world grow". ❤️
Happy #weekend all @bookstodon
"The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and to serve our fellow-men, the more profoundly will we become acquainted with ourselves, and the more inwardly assured. This is one of the great spiritual laws of life."
Shoghi Effendi
In a letter written on his behalf
February 18, 1954
#bahai #quotes
"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising, then they wouldn't have to advertise them."
— Will Rogers
"What is more quintessentially American than coming to a country you don't belong in and deciding you're going to stay?"
--John Oliver to Ronny Chieng on being an immigrant to America, The Daily Show
Your morning motivation, courtesy of the 6yo.
Lesson:
If one can't understand one's opponent, one can never defeat one's opponent
“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”
― Elie Wiesel
Happy Sunday!🙏😍💙🤍
As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this.
**Hal Borland
#Slovakia 🇸🇰
©️ radoslav_cernicky_photo
#photooftheday #photo #photography #landscapephotography #naturephotography #landscape #nature #Art #mastoart #quotes #sunday #mist #mountains
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.
-- William Osler
"The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't." – Ernest Rutherford #quotes
"All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves."
─ Bill Hicks (1961 - 1994)
#quote #quotes #thoughts #philosophy #science #existentialism
"It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them."
— Pearl S. Buck
Our best thoughts come from others.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
⬆ #Quotes #RalphWaldoEmerson #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico
"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy, and mutual valuing."
— Rollo May
A quotation from Jung, Carl:
«
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/jung-carl/39693/
#quote #quotes #quotation #irritation #meme #others #perspective #selfawareness #selfunderstanding
"The Real Self is dangerous: dangerous to the established church, dangerous to the state, dangerous to the crowd, dangerous to tradition, because once a man knows his real self, he becomes an individual."
─ Osho
"No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." ― Thomas Hobbes ("Leviathan", 1651) #quotes
Devil's Postpile for #MonochromeMonday
"The name Sierra is already a plural. To add an s is a linguistic, Californian, and mountaineering sin." (Ansel Adams)
#LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite #SierraNevada #EasternSierra #DevilsPostpile #NationalMonument #MammothLakes #Photography #Quotes #AnselAdams
“I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
#WorldKindnessDay #quotes
“She asks me to kill the spider.
Instead, I get the most
peaceful weapons I can find.
I take a cup and a napkin.
I catch the spider, put it outside
and allow it to walk away.
If I am ever caught in the wrong place
at the wrong time, just being alive
and not bothering anyone,
I hope I am greeted
with the same kind
of mercy.”
― Rudy Francisco