#ect

Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bible. I don't know how some people are able to disassociate their own cruelty and shortcomings from their religious obligations and convictions, but many are able to do that. ↗

— Judith McNaught

#inspirational #love-and-glory #respecting-others #inspirational

Migogoro inatokea kwa sababu watu wameshindwa kuheshimiana. Ukijiheshimu na ukaheshimu wengine; utaacha dunia katika hali nzuri kuliko ulivyoikuta, wakati ukiingia. ↗

— Enock Maregesi

#respect #inspirational

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914) ↗

— John Muir

#environment #inspirational #interdependency #life #marvel

The less you look to others, the more you find in yourself. What have you found in yourself. ↗

— Ron W. Rathbun

#honesty #inspirational #life #the-mind-and-self-relfection #inspirational

As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us. ↗

— Rivera Sun

#hearts #inspirational #love #magic #philosophy

What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness? ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#inspirational #intellect #love #mind #inspirational

The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference. ↗

— Wendy Shalit

#respect #sexual-difference #men

Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross. ↗

— Thomas Malory

#england #hope #immortality #king-arthur #matter-of-britain

Jane felt that he would write from the depths of a wretchedness that would not necessarily be insincere because its outward signs were so theatrical. Pesumably attractive men and probably woman too must always be suffering in this way; they must so often have to reject and cast aside love, and perhaps even practice did not always make them ruthless and cold-blooded enough to do it without feeling any qualms. ↗

— Barbara Pym

#love

Shouldering the duffel bag with the Marine Corps bulldog, Old Man knocked Jan's photo off the bed table. He turned to stone staring down at the photo. His face then splintered into hurt. Tears seeped into his eyes. He grappled for the nearest bedpost and slumped forward on extended arms. His shoulders jerked and head sagged a little while his heart broke. Old Man cried the mute cry of men of his generation. ↗

— Ed Lynskey

#noir #private-detective #suspense #thriller #men