#dom

Is the sunrise superior just because it goes before the sunset with a day and sunset goes before the sunrise with a night? Could there be day without night and sunrise without sunset, life without death? ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#life-lessons #wisdom #death

Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#life #wisdom #death

No one has measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. ↗

— Palto

#wisdom #love

For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool? ↗

— Stendhal

#personality #wisdom #love

Even a God finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. ↗

— Tina Smith

#love #wisdom #wise #wolf-sirens #love

Let us be sure that the lady of our choice possesses certain tangible qualities that we admire; and if in other ways she falls short of our ideal, we must be patient and call to mind those qualities that first induced us to begin our courting. ↗

— Lady Murasaki Shikibu

#love #wisdom #inspirational

Wise men speak only of what they know ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#men

Only wise men look for new wisdom. ↗

— Toba Beta

#wisdom #wise #men

Seek out your superiors and learn from them. Do not hide nor shy away from them for the sake of your pride for true pride is perceived, not in perceived skill, but in improvement. ↗

— Megan Webster

#pride #superiors #wisdom #inspirational

I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual’s natural right to property, and giving individuals a sense that they own something that they’re responsible for, that they have control over, and that they can dispose of. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#freedom