#humanity

You didn’t feed from her,” he said, and this was not a question. “Swill poison? Not my kind of fun, little brother.” One corner of Stefan’s mouth quirked up. He made no response to this, but simply looked at Damon with eyes that were... knowing. Damon bridled. “I told the truth!” “Going to take it up as a hobby? ↗

— L.J. Smith

#humanity #humor #snark #humor

ان الحب العاطفى بين الرجل والمراة شكل من اشكال الحب لكنه شكل متعدد الالوان كقوس قزح.. اما بحر الحب الانسانى نفسه فلا حدود له.. ولا حد لاشكاله وانواعه وصوره ↗

— عبد الوهاب مطاوع

#love #love

Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#monsters #monsters

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#love #love

It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#carl-sagan #cosmos #fearless #humanity #humility

She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#rivers #time #imagination

You matter, Mama repeated. Not because of whose son you are. Because of who you are. You're as important as every other human being that ever was or ever will be. Everyone matters. ↗

— Kimberley Brubaker Bradley

#self-worth #self-worth

Lucius didn’t believe in werewolves. He said that people were too horrible for any other monsters to exist, which he thought was a shame. ↗

— Rasmenia Massoud

#monsters #people #werewolves

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed. ↗

— Stanisław Lem

#closed-mindedness #discovery #humanity #ignorance #mankind

I do not politicize Christianity nor my discipleship as Jesus did not politicize either His divinity nor his humanity. ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#discipleship #humanity-humans #politicization #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods