#dive

A blanket could be used as a tapestry—a tapestry of love, in the Castle of Passion. This castle is coming into existence, and I'm building it brick by brick.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #divergence-test #love #age

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#diversity #comfort

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#diversity #equality #humor #inspirational #politics

The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations. ↗

— Emmanuel Mounier

#imagination #mind #person #thought #imagination

Zijn goede bedoelingen werden gedwarsboomd door de onwankelbare starheid van Rebeca, die vele jaren van leed en ellende nodig had gehad om de voorrechten van de eenzaamheid te verkrijgen en die niet van plan was daarvan af te zien in ruil voor een oude dag welke verstoord zou worden door de valse aantrekkelijkheid van een anders medelijden. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#inspirational #inspirational

Fear doesn't shut you down: It wake you up ↗

— Veronica Roth

#inspirational

She was kahuna, creating more life around her than was actually there, heightening the momentousness of each living thing by simply gazing upon it. ↗

— Kiana Davenport

#image #power #life

Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life, as a sacred duty, we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved, and on which we completely depend. ↗

— Edward O. Wilson

#diversity #environment #evolution #preservation #science

This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms-folded them into its genes-and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady. ↗

— Edward O. Wilson

#life

Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be." "That's not entirely true." He smiles at me. "That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with a belt to protect me-that selfless girl, that's not you?"... "You've been paying close attention, haven't you?" "I like to observe people/" "Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#divergent #four #love #tobias #tris-prior