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I believe that every one of us has something that's very unique to us specifically. Something unique enough that no one else might really ever understand it — not our parents, or teachers, or best friends, or siblings. It’s our point of view. Our point of view is what makes us unique, because no one else — no one else — has your particular combination of thoughts, and dreams, and hopes, and desires, and ambitions and memories, and experiences. No one. And I believe that every once in a while, the Universe opens itself up to you and you alone, and shows you something that no one else is going to understand.  And you have to decide in that moment how much you believe in what you have seen — even if everyone else in the world tells you you're wrong. ↗

— James A. Owen

#art

Live deliberately. Decide: are you the kind of person things happen to, or the kind of person who makes things happen? ↗

— James A. Owen

#art

I could feel her wipe away something wet, but I refused to think she had made me cry as well as admit that I was a coward. The League of Men was going to come confiscate my balls at this rate. But it didn't matter. Trixie was worth it. ↗

— Jocelynn Drake

#confiscate #gage #trixie #men

Mankind ought constantly to be striving to produce Great Men --this and nothing else is its duty ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#men

When Christ at a symbolic moment was establishing His great society, He chose for its cornerstone neither the brilliant Paul nor the mystic John, but a shuffler, a snob, a coward – in a word, a man. And upon this rock He has built His Church, and the gates of Hell have not prevailed against it. All the empires and the kingdoms have failed, because of this inherent and continual weakness, that they were founded by strong men and upon strong men. But this one thing, the historic Christian Church, was founded on a weak man, and for that reason it is indestructible. For no chain is stronger than its weakest link. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#peter #the-catholic-church #the-papacy #the-pope #men

Just remember,” he told her. “If you run from me, I will pursue. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#dangerous #evil-men #scary #threats #men

The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife that you may learn to bear these troubles. Those who have no love for children are... unworthy of being called men or women; for they despise the blessing of God, the creator and author of marriage. ↗

— Martin Luther

#children #god #marriage #procreation #love

Life is a beautiful thing. Plant it in the ground, and it blooms into opportunity, capice? ↗

— Gasmaskman

#humor #inspirational #beauty

To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg was wronged. We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have the with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#reason #war #men

Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort. ↗

— Jane Austen

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