"We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine."

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Source : Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

Matthew Simpson

#Shining Quotes #Joy Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Apr 11, 2013
“What's against legalization in a practical sense? A couple of college kids figured out how to take a hemp plant and turn it into newspaper and it was actually a better quality of paper. It was cheaper and if you plant hemp in a field it revitalizes the soil. You can grow food in a dirt lot if you do enough harvest of hemp. I don't pretend to know the specifics of the economics of it to say how much we'll be getting, but there is money to be made there that is not being made because it's illegal.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“God help anyone who messes with the Virals!”

Source : "Virals". Book by Kathy Reichs, November 2, 2010.
“Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.”

Source : Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.307, University of Chicago Press
“The artist...is the voice of the people.”
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
“Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the whim of the moment. Day by day we become what we do. This is the supreme law and logic of life.”
“When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they are reasonable.”

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