"How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things."

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Source : Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.15, Princeton University Press

Elaine Scarry

#Beautiful Quotes #Balance Quotes #World Quotes

“Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us to fight through to final victory.”
“Comfort is key. I need to make sure the cleat first my foot perfectly. Weight is important, too.”
“Your job, your invitation from the Universe, is to give people back to themselves. You can do this every day, in a hundred ways. All you have to do is look for the best in that person, and then show it to them, right then and there. Describe it. Admire it. Thank them for it. Why not practice it with the first three people you encounter after reading this?”
“In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form... If even a minimal confidence in photography does not survive, it is questionable whether many pictures will have meaning anymore, not only as symbols but as evidence.”
“Homecoming's stupid." And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night.”
“If you don't listen to your customers, someone else will.”
“When I am told (by those who confuse predestination with God's providence) that God already knows who will be saved and who will be damned, and therefore anything we do is useless, I usually answer with four truths that the bible spells out for us:God wants that everyone be saved; No one is predestined to go to hell; Jesus died for everyone; and everyone is given sufficient graces for salvation.”
“Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.”

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