#ear

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#knowledge #learning #love

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#peace #silence #diversity

Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#rain #sadness #winter #rain

The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#voice #rain

My body needs laughter as much as it needs tears. Both are cleansers of stress. ↗

— Mahogany SilverRain

#stress #tears #rain

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#tears #rain

The human heart is like india-rubber; a little swells it, but a great deal will not burst it. If "little more than nothing will disturb it, little less than all things will suffice" to break it. As in the outer members of our frame, there is a vital power inherent in itself that strengthens it against external violence. Every blow that shakes it will serve to harden it against a future stroke; as constant labour thickens the skin of the hand, and strengthens its muscles instead of wasting them away: so that a day of arduous toil, that might excoriate a lady's palm, would make no sensible impression on that of a hardy ploughman. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#heart #perseverance #india

Es un ciclo tan antiguo como el tribalismo. Todo comienza con la ignorancia. La ignorancia genera miedo. El miedo genera odio y el odio genera violencia. La violencia provoca más violencia hasta que la única ley viene dictada por la voluntad del más fuerte. ↗

— David Mitchell

#fear #hate #ignorance #ignorancia #law

I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#fearless #taylor-swift #fearless

No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#fearless