#his

He was furious with himself for having lived these last days on a wish. On a lie. A kiss does not make the future. Love alone does not make a life. ↗

— Alethea Kontis

#enchanted #fairy-tales #love #love

Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to unity, harmony, serenity - an end to his alienation from nature. All these arts of remote times or strange cultures either give or suggest to the modern artist forms which he can adapt to his needs, the elements of a new iconography. ↗

— Herbert Read

#art

Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too - that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up. ↗

— Paula McLain

#marriage #tradition #marriage

read the state of the art, the rest of inspiration ↗

— Art Opportunities

#art

If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a man my son. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#historical-fiction #war #wwi #love

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#history #interesting #itself #men #more

The two men stared at each other. Assumptions were made, judgments rendered, dicks measured. ↗

— Jennifer Estep

#men

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

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #eastern-philosophy #mindfulness #art

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#book-lovers #whiskey #men

One of my professors once told me that the last official act of the British monarchy was when Queen Victoria refused to sign a law that made same-sex acts illegal. It would have made me think more highly of her, except the reason she objected was because she didn’t believe women would do anything like that. Parliament rewrote the law so it was specific to men, and she signed it. A tribute to enlightenment, Queen Victoria was not. Neither, as I have observed before, are werewolf packs. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#history #humor #queen-victoria #shifters #urban-fantasy