#ace

Its three in the morning,' she noted with dismay. 'Do you think Simon’s all right?' 'I think he‘s weird, actually,' said Jace. 'Though that has little to do with time. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#pg- #weird

Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside. ↗

— Peter Deunov

#enlightenment #happiness #inner-peace #self-fulfillment #wisdom

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#peace #tolerance #diversity

We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable. Our memory is struggling to rescue the truth that human rights were not handed down as privileges from a parliament, or a boardroom, or an institution, but that peace is only possible with justice and with information that gives us the power to act justly. ↗

— John Pilger

#journalism #justice #media #peace #media

The sky is the limit only for those who aren't afraid to fly! ↗

— Bob Bello

#flight #sci-fi #space-colonization #space-exploration #speculative-fiction

The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. ↗

— Abigail Van Buren

#grace #sin #church

Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated. ↗

— Wayne W. Dyer

#god #peace #silence #spirituality #misery

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#personality #rebellion

I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me. I don’t know how to be without you. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #jace-wayland #love

They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace. ↗

— Tacitus

#peace #greed