#com

For as long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love. ↗

— Pythagoras

#love #peace #vegan #vegetarian #love

You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative. ↗

— Elisabeth Rohm

#be patient #clock #come #dues #eventually

Will I become a coach in the future? No way. I'd never be able to put up with someone like me. ↗

— Romario

#become #coach #future #i #like

For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#men

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best. ↗

— Philip Dormer Stanhope

#inspirational #inspirational

Success follows those who champion a cause greater than themselves. ↗

— George Alexiou

#attraction #charity #compassion #empowerment #giving

Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller than his brethren by the breadth of a human fingernail. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#pride #inspirational

Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice. ↗

— John Burnham Schwartz

#men #scarcity #schwartz #the-commoner #love

You're not like other Wasps." "Aren't I?" Aagen smiled, but it was a painful smile. "No doubt you've killed my kinsmen by the score." "A few," Salma allowed. "Well, next time you shed my kinden's blood, think on this: we are but men, no less nor more than other men, and we strive and feel joy and fail as men have always done. We live in the darkness that is the birthright of us all, that of hurt and ignorance, only sometimes... sometimes there comes the sun." He let the bowl fall from his fingers to the floor, watching it spin and settle, unbroken. ↗

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

#aagen-s-joy #birthright #darkness #grief-in-chains #here-comes-the-sun

There are men who dig for gold; [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#driving-forces #gold #greed #men