"A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life."

-- Lewis Mumford

#Beauty Quotes #Truth Quotes #Sight Quotes

“I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.”
“I feel that I'm solid at description.”

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“I wasn't prepared for death. Nobody is. You lose someone you love more than you love yourself, and you get a crash course in mortality. You lie awake night after night, wondering if you really believe in heaven and hell and finding all kinds of reasons to cling to faith, because you can't bear to believe they aren't out there somewhere, a few whispered words of a prayer away.”
“I only need to know one thing. Am I going to need the flamethrower?”
“The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for so long by the rigidity of traditional scholarship, is as exciting and surprising as a bestselling murder mystery; I simply couldn't put it down. Through scholarly brilliance and passion, Adrienne Mayor has opened the door to a forgotten world of gender equality, and her book ought to be required reading in every college history course.”
“Life is nothing but a memory. People who dwell on the bad ones aren't going to have a whole lot of good ones coming up.”
“But perhaps the most important innovation in the doctrine of jihad was its outright prohibition of all but strictly defensive wars. â€œFight in the way of God those who fight you,â€ the Quran says, â€œbut do not begin hostilities; God does not like the aggressorâ€ (2:190). Elsewhere the Quran is more explicit: â€œPermission to fight is given only to those who have been oppressedÂ ... who have been driven from their homes for saying, 'God is our Lord'Â â€ (22:39; emphasis added).”
“She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.”

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