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If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#double-standards #empowerment #expectations #false-belief #feminism

It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That’s of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it’s said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance. ↗

— Charles Williams

#christian-hermeticism #inspirational #supernatural #tarot #inspirational

True joy comes from operating with Inner-directedness and recognizing who you are. ↗

— Sanaya Roman

#self-awareness #self-determination #inspirational

Empowerment is the magic wand that turns a frog into a prince. Never estimate the power of the people, through true empowerment great leaders are born. ↗

— Lama S. Bowen

#inspirational #leadership #inspirational

France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me years ago when I read how her noble sons had defended America in its cradle. Today I am proud that I am one of the millions who will come to save our heroine from the clutches of the villain from across the Rhine. ↗

— William Arthur Sirmon

#france #germany #historical-romance #history #inspirational

Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out on themselves. Whoever survives the country wins. That would be much simpler and more than just this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#germany #indignation #inspirational #literature #reality

Wie bald 'nicht jetz' 'nie' wird. How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'. ↗

— Douglas Kennedy

#inspiration #life-lessons #luther #inspirational

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#impermanence #men

Stop giving your life away to other people. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #self-empowerment #inspirational

Seek first the kingdom of heaven WITHIN, whereby lies an abundance of treasures and resources that you need ↗

— Lisa Washington

#inspiration #motivation #inspirational