#being

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself. ↗

#demons #himself #human #human beings #like

But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#certainly #ended #human #human beings #i

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#being #creeds #gods #just #kind

I never wanted to be the one to break her heart, to disappoint her, to be late for dinner or to hog the bed. I never wanted to be the person to make her cry, or turn out to be a huge let-down. She meant to much to me for any of that. While I believed I could love her better than anyone in the world, I didn't really trust myself to be... Well, good enough. ↗

— Jessica Thompson

#love #love

Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being. ↗

— Gary Kowalski

#being #souls #love

Do not believe anything merely because you are told it is so, because others believe it, because it comes from Tradition, or because you have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect. Believe, take for your doctrine, and hold true to that, which, after serious investigation, seems to you to further the welfare of all beings. (47) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#belief #believe #doctrine #teachers #teaching

Maybe it’s NOT Maybelline. Maybe you were just born with it. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#beautiful #beauty #being-yourself #confidence #inner-beauty

There is no model, no actress, no Miss America contender that can outshine a happy, confident, secure woman. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#beautiful-confidence #beauty #being-yourself #confident #happiness

There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#aloneness #beauty #being-single #faith #flying-solo

I want to leave a mark. But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars. ↗