#bro

It avails not, time nor place--distance avails not, I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence, Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt, Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a crowd, Just as you are refresh'd by the gladness of the river and the bright flow, I was refresh'd, Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift current, I stood yet was hurried, Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships and the thick-stemm'd pipes of steamboats, I look'd. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#men

Never Be Still unless you're resting. If you're not at rest, you should be taking action. ↗

— Brian A. Brown

#black #brian-a-brown #brian-c-brown #inspiration #inspirational

Life is upside down. Thank God for just taking what we want, not what we need. He take what we want to make us ready for receiving what we need. ↗

— Cynthia Rusli

#economic-depression #inspirational #love-hurts #motivational-quotes #inspirational

I've never had my brows done - I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, that's how I learned. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#done #had #her #how #i

You don't have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great. ↗

— Les Brown

#les-brown #inspirational

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#inspirational #wisdom #inspirational

The perfect life with everything, with more that i could imagine Was with you and everything that follows, a whole life full of tomorrows When im near you I get this special feeling in my heart, that happens to dissapear when we are apart Because you manage to bright up my day, and just the thought that we would always stay Always stay together you and i, and live happily ever after as the days go by ↗

— Me

#forever #love #miss-you #sad #together

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he had to, to avoid risking exposure to physical violence. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn't matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#cowardice #fear #martial-heroics #physical-violence #playing-dead

Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature - that baby beating its breast with its fist, for instance - and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears: would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me, and tell me the truth!" "No, I wouldn't consent," said Alyosha softly. The Brothers Karamazov Ivan to Alyosha, Book V - Pro and Contra, Chapter 4 - Rebellion ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#god #religion #suffering #the-brothers-karamazov #theodicy

It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#broken-heart #compassion #inspirational #kindness #love