#de

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#awe #beauty #life #optimism #positivity

Blue as the evening sky, blue as cranesbill flowers, blue as the lips of drowned men and the heart of a blaze burning with too hot a flame. Yes, sometimes it was hot in this world, too. Hot and cold, light and dark, terrible and beautiful, it was everything all at once. It wasn't true that you felt nothing in the land of Death. You felt and heard and smelled and saw, but your heart remained strangely calm, as if it were resting before the dance began again. Peace. Was that the word? ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#beauty

It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide. ↗

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

#suicide #death

Words taken literally or held as ultimate truth can keep us stagnant and stuck, holding on to old ideologies. I now know that everything I need is already contained within me and is completely aceessible if I allow myself to open up to what I sense is true for me...and the same is true for you. ↗

— Anita Moorjani

#death

I detested you, at the moment of my death... My soul cannot move beyond that... As long as you live, I cannot rest! -Kikyo to Kagome ↗

— Rumiko Takahashi

#inuyasha #kagome #kikyo #manga #rumiko

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#defy #fear #how #human #hunger

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. ↗

— Leon Edel

#fade #his #house #inner #into

Yet the march toward freedom is not without its hazards or its casualties and the threats of violence aimed at Iraqis who participate in the election will be dealt with accordingly. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#aimed #casualties #dealt #election #freedom

Silver and gold the Gods have denied them, whether in mercy or in wrath, I am unable to determine. ↗

— Germanicus

#denied #determine #gods #gold #i

Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story. ↗

— Hugo Gernsback

#exposition #fiction #first #must #place