#cal

Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses ↗

— Kamila Shamsie

#philosophical #wry #inspirational

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#political-philosophy #religious #inspirational

you are searching everywhere you want the sun find your home between your eyes ↗

— Žiga Stanovnik

#home #inspirational #life #phylosiphical #inspirational

Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#cale #feel #four #god #greatest

For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a mystic significance, and, in some men, an archangelic grandeur; so do their diligent tracings-out not blue the obvious deduction. To trail the genealogies of these high mortal miseries, carries us at last among the sourceless primogenitures of the gods; so that, in the face of all the glad, hay-making suns, and the softcymballing, round the harvest-moons, we must needs give in to this: that the gods themselves are not for ever glad. The ineffaceable, sad birth-mark in the brow of man, is but the stamp of sorrow in the signers. ↗

— Herman Melville

#divinity #philosophical #sadness #unhappiness #men

You don't need to know what you want. You only need to know what you don't want... ↗

— Julia Heywood

#philosophical-quotations #spiritual-quotes #spiritual-wisdom #inspirational

Sneezeweed, Drew?" He grinned. "Jealous?" "Surprised." "Remind me, and I'll have a talk with Gerald. Give him a few tips." "Promise?" "Absolutely. ↗

— Deeanne Gist

#bride #brides #christian #christian-romance #connie

Annabelle gave him a chiding smile. “If you’re implying that I’m spoiled, I assure you that I am not.” “You should be.” His warm gaze slid over her pink-tinted face and slender upper body, then sought hers again. There was a note in his voice that gently robbed her of breath. “You could do with a bit of spoiling. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#romance #historical

Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real. ↗

— Lactantius

#men

Some ghosts or felt presences may simply be the essence of another living person projected outward while sleeping. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#inspiration #metaphysical #paranormal #supernatural #inspirational