#east

Our life depends on the kind of thoughts we nurture. If our thoughts are peaceful, calm, meek, and kind, then that is what our life is like. If our attention is turned to the circumstances in which we live, we are drawn into a whirlpool of thoughts and can have neither peace nor tranquility. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#eastern-orthodoxy #life #peace #thinking #thoughts

It was disconcerting that being in love felt lonelier than lonelines. ↗

— Emily Maguire

#taming-the-beast #love

I love women’s breasts. I love how they don’t blink when I stare at them.   ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#women #love

I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold ↗

— Mahmoud Darwish

#poetry #love

Compassion is not complete if it does not include oneself. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #eastern-philosophy #mindfulness #art

If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. ↗

— Chief Seattle

#chief #chief-seattle #earth #seattle #men

men i swear." -jacky faber ↗

— L.A. Meyer

#men

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#a-song-of-ice-and-fire #history #nature

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#human-nature #savagery #war #nature

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea. ↗