#dom

We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do. ↗

— Robin Hobb

#inspirational #life #nighteyes #robin-hobb #royal-assassin

Berikan kepadaku mereka yang lelah dan papa Yang terbelenggu dan mendambakan kebebasan Yang terbanting ke pantaimu, berimpitan lemas Beri aku para gelandangan, dan yang terhempas Akan kunyalakan pelitaku di sisi gerbang emas ↗

— Emma Lazarus

#inspiration #freedom

Don't worry much about the after-life, Just like you don't worry about your before-Life. Worry (and be grateful) about THIS life. This one DOES count ↗

— Pablo

#grateful #inspiration #life #wisdom #worry

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you just can't help it. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#real-life #truth #wisdom #inspirational

Don't spread negativity, that stuff is contagious and ruins us. The good news is, positivity can also be contagious and it lifts us. ↗

— Joshua Neik

#negativity #negativity-is-toxic #positivity #wisdom #inspirational

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#inspiration #life #wisdom #inspirational

I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe . . . Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#government #design

Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They have to protect their belongings. No one is meaner than the rich. Trust me. But they have to follow the rules of their shitty civilised world. They declare war, they have honour, and they can't leave. But you two. We three. We're free. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#intelligence #privilege #rich #wealth #freedom

Intelligence without wisdom brings destruction. ↗

— Erol Ozan

#intelligence #wisdom-inspirational #inspirational

The enchanted world arising out of the dim mists of the past, into which he just stepped, quivered-and disappeared. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#point-of-view #russia #intelligence