"I became very interested [in philosophy] after attending the U.N. Conference on sustainable development in Brazil.I'm very concerned about climate change and the world reaching a tipping point. And, I see other people who really just want to survive to make it to the next election, rather than making means of change."

-- Nick Offerman

#Philosophy Quotes #Mean Quotes #People Quotes

“If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.”

Source : Philip Morin Freneau (1809). “Poems Written and Published During the American Revolutionary War, and Now Republished from the Original Manuscripts: Interspersed with Translations from the Ancients, and Other Pieces Not Heretofore in Print”, p.148
“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
“God's love does not depend on the current spiritual condition of those He loves.”
“Your fears are not walls, but hurdles.”
“In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.”
“When the time came that His first-born, the Saviour, should come into the world and take a tabernacle, the Father came Himself and favoured that spirit with a tabernacle instead of letting any other man do it.”
“Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.”
“They all laughed. I drew their pictures and they asked for copies and I handed them out as if they were my tickets to the show. In the Navy Yard, I could drink with men because I worked with men; in the Parkview, I could drink with men because I drew their pictures. The world was a grand confusion. Finally, when I was bleary, when my hand wouldn't do what I wanted it to do, I went home. I would lie alone in the dark, feeling that I was a character in a story that had lost its plot.”

Source : Pete Hamill (1994). “A Drinking Life: A Memoir”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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