Masthash

#quotes

elein
2 hours ago

@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

Nando161
2 hours ago

[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

[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]

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). […]

https://www.didiermary.fr/wole-soyinka-nigeria-tigritude/

#Afrique #Nigeria #QOTD #Quotes

Wole Soyinka
The Happy Heathen
4 hours ago
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4 hours ago
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4 hours ago
The Happy Heathen
4 hours ago
Gary
4 hours ago

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

Author Steaphan Kay :verfox:
6 hours ago

"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

Wisdom in Space
6 hours ago

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

photo by richard rathe
Damon Thomas
7 hours ago

"I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all." ― E.B. White #writing #quotes

Matteo Cesari
8 hours ago

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
(Albert Einstein)

#Quotes #quoteoftheday #stupidity #life

Albert Einstein
The Happy Heathen
9 hours ago
The Happy Heathen
9 hours ago
The Happy Heathen
9 hours ago
The Happy Heathen
9 hours ago
The Happy Heathen
9 hours ago
Imminent Murphy
9 hours ago

“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

#Quotes

FinbarrF
10 hours ago

“Your past haunts you
Your present overwhelms you
Your future scares you
Yet you survive”
― Lidia Longorio

#quotes

Fionnbharr
10 hours ago

“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

#quotes

The Happy Heathen
13 hours ago
The Happy Heathen
13 hours ago
The Happy Heathen
13 hours ago
The Happy Heathen
13 hours ago
BahaiWritngServ
14 hours ago

Religions are many,
but the reality of religion is one.

The days are many,
but the sun is one.

The fountains are many,
but the fountainhead is one.

The branches are many,
but the tree is one.

‘Abdu’l‑Bahá
The Promulgation of Universal Peace, #49
www.bahai.org/r/562295020
#bahai #quotes

Wisdom in Space
14 hours ago

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

photo by richard rathe
SydPark
15 hours ago

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

Winter scene in Crater Lake NP, Oregon
Setaggi
15 hours ago

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

Baha'i Quotes
15 hours ago

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

River J. Hopkins
15 hours ago

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

― Kahlil Gibran

#Quotes

Wisdom in Space
22 hours ago

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

photo by richard rathe
Baha'i Quotes
1 day ago

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

Jeremiah Lee
1 day ago

"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”

#quotes

The Happy Heathen
1 day ago
The Happy Heathen
1 day ago
The Happy Heathen
1 day ago
The Happy Heathen
1 day ago
Wisdom in Space
1 day ago

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

photo by richard rathe
Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson
1 day ago

I think this quote really applies to the entire freedumb caucus….

“If someone is an asshole, they're an asshole. If everyone is an asshole, you're the asshole”

#AITA #Quotes #GOP #MAGA

Rod Faulkner
1 day ago

Quotes by Frederick Douglass, former enslaved person, orator, newspaper publisher, and greatest abolitionist of the 19th century.

#quotes #BlackHistory365 #FrederickDouglass

https://youtu.be/HTtpPyYO-6o?si=2_BPBY-TCGpXfKCi

Steve Goodier 🐢
1 day ago

Would you like this as a daily text? Text JOIN to (970) 696-7814.

#quote #quotes #funny #humor #humour

Meme: To vacillate or not to vacillate, that is the question...or is it?
Yahia Lababidi
1 day ago

Is there any reward for good other than good?

هل جزاء الإحسان إلا الإحسان

[#Quran 55:60]

#quotes #inspiration #god #ethics

FinbarrF
1 day ago

“Miraculously recover or die. That's the extent of our cultural bandwidth for chronic illness.”
― S. Kelley Harrell

#quotes

Fionnbharr
1 day ago

“Courage wasn't only fighting your circumstances; sometimes making peace with your circumstances required more courage.”
― Sonali Dev

#quotes

Jesse F Ballenger
2 days ago

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

#CriticalTheory #Adorno #quotes

The Happy Heathen
2 days ago
Drew
2 days ago

"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

#Quote #QuoteoftheDay #quotes #Philosophy

"The last thing anyone wants is singing klingons" -- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

#StarTrek #Quote #Quotes

Yahia Lababidi
2 days ago

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

Drew
2 days ago

"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

#Quote #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #Literature

The Happy Heathen
2 days ago
WIST Quotations
3 days ago

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

Fionnbharr
4 days ago

“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

#quotes

@GottaLaff

We must strive to be better, lest we be put in the same basket

Hmmm, I think I just invented a quote, lol

#MyQuote #Quotes

Wisdom in Space
4 days ago

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

photo by richard rathe
Fionnbharr
4 days ago

“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

#quotes

Space Data Scientist
4 days ago

Heard at a ML conference: "The science you can do with this is exciting but unclear" #quotes #astrodon #AcademicChatter #ai #machinelearning

Wisdom in Space
4 days ago

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

photo by richard rathe
Narayoni
5 days ago
"We live in strange times.
We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own. Being able to glance out into this bewildering complexity of infinite recursion and say things like, ‘Oh, hi, Ed! Nice tan. How’s Carol?’ involves a great deal of filtering skill for which all conscious entities have eventually to develop a capacity in order to protect themselves from the contemplation of the chaos through which they seethe and tumble. So give your kid a break, OK?
Extract from Practical Parenting in a Fractally Demented Universe"
--A quotation from Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series)
Rod Faulkner
5 days ago

This amazing woman's remarkable life needs to be made into a biopic STAT.

Shirley Chisholm Quotes (For inspiration and motivation)

https://youtu.be/Y40PiICrdmQ

#quotes #ShirleyChisholm #BlackHistory365 #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon

BahaiWritngServ
6 days ago

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

The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 244
#bahai #quotes

Tomasz Susuł
6 days ago

"November was a gap in time, a crack between autumn and the long Polish winter."
Joanna Bator "Dark, almost night"

__________
#photo #photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #bnw #BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead #filmphotography #quotes #Poland

Autumn atmosphere, a black and white photo of a park, an empty bench, a tree standing next to it, mist and barely visible trees in the distance.
WIST Quotations
6 days ago

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

The Happy Heathen
6 days ago
SydPark
1 week ago

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

Beautiful Misty scene in Emerald Lake Colorado
SydPark
1 week ago

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

Autumn scene in Japan with a view of Mt. Fuji
Wisdom in Space
1 week ago

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

#Quotes #NicholasNegroponte #Computers

#Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Books

photo by richard rathe
Wisdom in Space
1 week ago

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

photo by richard rathe

🇺🇸 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

Yahia Lababidi
1 week ago

“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

surya
1 week ago

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

BahaiWritngServ
1 week ago

"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

#quotes #FridayThoughts #BlackFriday

A person standing in New York's Times Square at night, facing away from the camera and looking up at hundreds of digital signboards on the sides of buildings. The person has short blond hair and is wearing a light brown hoodie. Photo by Joshua Earle on Unsplash; used with permission.
Milcom Miasma
2 weeks ago

"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

https://youtu.be/FNkDPqRAZqY?si=IL5I5F-q_TWiAWf8

#Quotes

"By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?"
— Walter Rodney

#Quote #Quotes

Walter Rodney.
Credit: Walter Rodney Papers, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library Archives.
Ashley Porciuncula
2 weeks ago

Your morning motivation, courtesy of the 6yo.

#Parenting #Kids #MotivationalQuotes #Motivation #Quotes

An image of a sunrise over mountains, with the text "You can be a sucker, or you can be a better life person."

@eunews

Lesson:
If one can't understand one's opponent, one can never defeat one's opponent

#LessonsOfLife
#Quotes
#MyQuote

Fionnbharr
2 weeks ago

“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

#quotes

Damon Thomas
2 weeks ago

Call me a contrarian.. but I refuse to take "thought life" advice from someone named "Smith Wigglesworth." #quotes #advice

Thought life advice quote involving the devil.
SydPark
2 weeks ago

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

Beautiful Misty scene in Slovakia
Wisdom in Space
2 weeks ago

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

#Quotes #WilliamOsler #Medicine

#Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Sunset #NewMexico

photo by richard rathe
Damon Thomas
2 weeks ago

"The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't." – Ernest Rutherford #quotes

Metin Seven 🎨
2 weeks ago

"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

#quotes #FridayFeeling #FridayThoughts

A photograph of Pearl S. Buck and her children.

Outraged that existing adoption services considered mixed-race, disabled, and older children unadoptable, Pearl Buck in 1949 established Welcome House, which has assisted in the placement of more than 6,000 children. In 1964 she started the Pearl S. Buck Foundation, which has raised millions of dollars for the adoption of mixed race children. Buck coined the term "Amerasian" - often abandoned by their American fathers stationed in the Far East. Buck herself adopted and raised nine children.
Wisdom in Space
2 weeks ago

Our best thoughts come from others.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Quotes #RalphWaldoEmerson #Life

#Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico

photo by richard rathe

"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy, and mutual valuing."

— Rollo May

#quotes #ThursdayThoughts

Black-and-white photo of Rollo May sitting on a park bench, reading a newspaper. He is wearing a jacket, turtleneck shirt, and glasses.
Damon Thomas
3 weeks ago

"One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz." – Lou Reed #quotes #music

WIST Quotations
3 weeks ago

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

Picture of Carl Jung with his quote: "Everything that irritates us about others can lead to an understanding of ourselves."
Metin Seven 🎨
3 weeks ago

"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

#quote #quotes #philosophy #words

Damon Thomas
3 weeks ago

"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

A vertical landscape photo in black & white, showing a wall of columnar basalt, on the right, with trees growing on top, and trees down below and behind a talus field on the left. Clouds are above it.
FinbarrF
3 weeks ago

“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

Fionnbharr
3 weeks ago

“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

#WorldKindnessDay #quotes #poetry