#edge

Today wouldn't have happened if histories weren't falsified. ↗

— Toba Beta

#falsified #histories #knowledge #life #people

Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#avoid #pain #touc #life

It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress, but collective knowledge of the society and market demands. ↗

— Toba Beta

#demand #development #knowledge #life #market

A saving, though an immethodical knowledge of Christ, will bring us to heaven, John 17: 2, but a regular and methodical, as well as a saving knowledge of him, will bring heaven into us, Col. 2: 2, 3. ↗

— John Flavel

#heaven #knowledge #puritans #salvation #life

How does it feel being a woman's weakness? I mean a real woman. I mean a real weakness. ↗

— Sofía Navarro

#debilidad #edge #love #mujer #mujeres

I'm bad for you. I told you I will break you and I will. I wish I knew how not to. I can't. I'm sorry. You have to take me like this... ↗

— Mercy Cortez

#lonely #love-hurts #love

But I knew how the play would come out. This was like a dress rehearsal after the show has closed down. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#men

Nothing in the tangible word that isn't living has any value beyond a dollar amount. Considering that dollars can only buy more tangible and inanimate objects, it would seem a far more worthwhile goal to instead learn to place value on the treasures of the mind. Memories, knowledge and skill together are the only things we will ever actually own. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#knowledge #materialism #mind #money #objects

Everything is music for the born musician. ↗

— Romain Rolland

#identity #music #musicians #self-knowledge #music

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat. ↗

— Confucius

#knowledge #religion #religion