Voltaire

Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace. ↗

— Voltaire

#enlightenment

She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying. ↗

— Voltaire

#love #love

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. ↗

— Voltaire

#canvas #furnished #imagination #love is #nature

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cars in order to win the game. ↗

— Voltaire

#life

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. ↗

— Voltaire

#consciousness #dissolution #eternal #infinity #knowing

Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all? ↗

— Voltaire

#emotions #nature

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. ↗

— Voltaire

#greater #harm #i #know #life

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden. ↗

— Voltaire

#difficulties #life #life

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying? ↗

— Voltaire

#volume #art

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times. ↗

— Voltaire

#nor #times #truths #which