#cult

So this needs to be said, and so I will try to say it ↗

— Jason Najum

#culture-critique #inspirational #memoir #philosophy #pop-culture

It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend. ↗

— Aacharya Shri Mahashraman

#friends #friendship #initmacy #jainism #life

I blame Doctor Who. Mr Spock. The Scooby Gang: both the ones in the Mystery Machine and the ones with the stakes. I've spent my life with stories of people who don't walk away, who go back for their friends, who make that last stand. I've been brainwashed by Samwise Gamgee. ↗

— Andrea K. Höst

#humour #pop-culture #life

What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority. ↗

— Robert Altman

#enough #enough people #just #make #means

A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need. ↗

— Heidi W. Durrow

#life #soul #women #life

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden. ↗

— Voltaire

#difficulties #life #life

Easy and difficult things are juat small parts of life, the rest are what have to be done. ↗

— Alief Moulana

#hard-work #insipirational #life #life

Hillalum wondered what sort of people were forged by living under such conditions; did they escape madness? Did they grow accustomed to this? Would the children born under a solid sky scream if they saw the ground beneath their feet? ↗

— Ted Chiang

#cultural-differences #life

The existence of insignificant people has very important consequences in the world. It can be shown to affect the price of bread and the rate of wages, to call forth many evil tempers from the selfish and many heroisms from the sympathetic, and, in other ways, to play no small part in the tragedy of life. ↗

— George Eliot

#people #life

There is no chronic disease to be found among fish and animal life in the sea that compares to those on land. It is also known that all land animals develop arteriosclerosis, yet sea animals have never been diagnosed as arteriosclerotic. ↗

— Dr. Maynard Murray

#sea-agriculture #sea-salt-nutrition #soil #life