Want

You should always give thought to what you want and why you want it.
--Stacey Abrams

Substitute

Worrying about someone is a poor substitute for loving them.
--Talia Lavin

Essence

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
--Arthur Schopenhauer

Disaster

We shall see how the counsels of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of mortal danger; how the middle course adopted from desires for safety and a quiet life may be found to lead direct to the bull's-eye of disaster.
--Winston Churchill

Justice

The U.S. cultural concept of "Justice" is too often crippled by confining it to an emotional craving for retribution (revenge). The cure awaits the realization that the essence of Justice is fulfilled only with the healing of a wounded spirit. While that approach will not succeed in all cases, the righteous are not excused from the effort. These are ancient truths.
--Kirk Bready

Divine

All other mediums use technology to achieve our kind of magic. In the theatre, all we have is the most divine instrument ever created and that is the human form.
--André De Shields

Beyond

Every age has had its hopes, hopes that look to something beyond the life of the age itself, hopes that try to pierce into the future.
--William Morris (1885)

Supplant

Photography would seem to preserve our past and make it invulnerable to the distortions of repeated memorial superimpositions, but I think that is a fallacy: photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.
--Sally Mann

Books

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature is dumb, science is crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
--Barbara Tuchman

Nervous

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
--Shana Alexander

Wants

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
--Arthur Schopenhauer

Next

Whatever is next could be really enlightened, and it could be really ugly.
--Pete Buttigieg

Remember

Memory is not a quantifiable value in human life. Simply because our memories are not a perfect reflection of truth. What and how we remember is not directly based on facts. We remember what is good for us.
--Karl Ove Knausgård

How Else

Despair is, in a way, an appropriate response to the world; how else to face the corrosive power of time, how else to accommodate the brevity and frailty of the self?
--Mark Doty

More

Being with people I don't know and feel I have to entertain--I find that exhausting. But being with people I love? I have more energy after.
--Ina Garten

Shape

Stories are our way of coping, of creating shape out of mess.
--Sarah Polley

Simple

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
--Charles Mingus

Injecting

The world won't leave things be. It's always injecting endings into beginnings.
--David Mitchell

Hate

I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Culture

Culture is everything we don't have to do.
--Brian Eno

Interrogate

That's what makes the left the left. One is constantly needing to interrogate one's own assumptions.
--Tony Kushner

Stories

We think we tell stories, but stories often tell us, tell us to love or to hate, to see or to be blind.
--Rebecca Solnit