#do

Blessed is he who believes in the illusion because thus he can find his great truth! ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#wisdom-inspirational #inspirational

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else? ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#inspiration #love #wisdom #inspirational

Falling into true love, is not taking a rope to climb out ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#inspiration #life #love #observation #philosophy

Be more weary of the fearful than of the brave. ↗

— Meeta Ahluwalia

#wisdom-inspirational #wisdom-quote #inspirational

Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light. ↗

— Steven Erikson

#inspirational #light #poetry #shadow #inspirational

As long as your not hiding behind a closed door, he'll come. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#her #him #inspirational #life #love

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God. ↗

— R. Scott Bakker

#wisdom #inspirational

Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident. ↗

— Moderata Fonte

#double-standards #feminism #gender #history #hypocrisy

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#double-standards #empowerment #expectations #false-belief #feminism

Everything is defeated before love. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#eastern-orthodoxy #inspirational #love #spirituality #inspirational