#cal

Stark raving mad. ↗

— Stieg Larsson

#inspirational #inspirational

You were kidnapped not?" "I was kidnapped." "You were forced not into marriage?" "I was forced into marriage." "You want not an annulment?" "I want not an annulment. ↗

— Deeanne Gist

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

The things that matter don't necessarily make sense. ↗

— Russell Hoban

#philosophical #inspirational

You have to set somebody free for them to return ↗

— Candice Night

#love #philosophical #inspirational

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing. ↗

— Ami McKay

#homebirth #inspirational #life #midwifery #political

Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man's toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#sexes #change

Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you. ↗

— Myrna Ericksen

#historical-romance #humor #inspirational #mystery-suspense #humor

Just to say 'I believe' or 'I do not doubt' does not mean that you understand and see. To force oneself to see and accept a thing without understanding is political and not spiritual or intellectual. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#life-lessons #philosophical #inspirational

Don’t hide what you have just because people tell you it’s not normal. I have known normal people…and guess what? They are as boring as hell... ↗

— Sidney Knight

#inspiration #inspirational #motivational #psychological #psychological-drama

Do not be concerned with how others treat you. Be only concerned with how you treat others. ↗

— Julia Heywood

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