Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
Abraham LincolnTag: simile character appearances substance
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
AesopBeyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.
Haruki MurakamiTag: world signs space emptiness substance chords edge loop
Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.
Criss JamiTag: strength peace revenge moving-on forgiveness character grudges substance strength-of-character vengeance peace-of-mind move-on grudge owed holding-grudges owe substantial unforgiving
Or maybe that’s what it’s all about: this religion’s substance is its lack of substance.
In McLuhanesque terms, the medium is the message. Some people might find that cool.”
“McLuhanesque?”
“Hey, look, even I read a book now and then,” Ayumi protested. “McLuhan was ahead of his time. He was so popular for a while that people tend not to take him seriously, but what he had to say was right.”
“In other words, the package itself is the contents. Is that it?”
“Exactly. The characteristics of the package determine the nature of the contents, not the other way around.
Tag: religion substance message mcluhan murakami medium
Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.
Jessica ZafraTag: truth books fact witty substance best-sellers
The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.
Criss JamiTag: intelligence genius simplicity practicality substance complication practicality-for-intellectuals roles accessibility
Spirit is a tangible substance.
Toba BetaTag: spirit substance tangible
One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.
Jean RhysTag: illusion shadow value importance substance
Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substantive evolution.
Grigoris DeoudisTag: nature ambition stars living evolution path prosperity substance detached materialistic
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