#arm

Sonia's terribly fond of juggling with people's lives. I never shall forget when she made me go to her doctor...I can only say he very nearly killed me. It's not her fault if I'm here today. She's entirely unscrupulous. She gets a hold over people much too easily, with her charm and her prestige, and then forces her own values on them. ↗

— Nancy Mitford

#unscrupulous #love

What...?" He began as he approached her before noticing the gate was open. He took command and wished he was in uniform with his star and weapon, but at the moment he was only a highly trained civilian, and unarmed. ↗

— Judith-Victoria Douglas

#command #highly-trained #star #unarmed #uniform

Love comforts, it is gentle, it is warm and you can feel it within your entire being. ↗

— Ellen J. Barrier

#gentleness #love #warmth #love

I love you,” he said, and he kissed me again. Feral. Possessive. I gasped out, “I love you too. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#j-lynn #jennifer-l-armentrout #love

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#humankind #men

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#integrity #harmony

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19) ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#god #politics #saints #theology #harmony

The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul. ↗

— Anonymous

#harmony

Who you are is always right. ↗

— Deng Ming-Dao

#taoism #harmony

She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create. Theorem, anti-theorem, corollary, anti-corollary. Underline it twice. It’s all there in the numbers. Listen to your mother. Listen to me, Joshua. Look me in the eyes. I have something to tell you. ↗

— Colum McCann

#armies #children #lessons #let-the-great-world-spin #loss