#gold

Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of nothing. ↗

— Anna Akhmatova

#freedom

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#freedom #gold #libertarianism #freedom

The funny thing about stop signs is that they're also start signs. ↗

— Maureen Johnson

#the-key-to-the-golden-firebird #funny

The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort. ↗

— C. J. Cherryh

#ethic #family #feed #fight #fighting

Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

#imagination

If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#inspirational #inspirational

If gold rusts, what then can iron do? ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#fallibility #flaws #gold #imperfection #inspirational

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ↗

— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#everyday #everyday life #glamour #golden #haze

You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You don't boo me. ↗

— Kurt Angle

#boo #came #gold #here #i

Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless? ↗

— Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

#ichschmertz #weariness #life