#is

The West wanted to avoid an Islamic state in Europe. ↗

— Franjo Tudjman

#europe #islamic #state #wanted #west

Abby era nueva y asustadiza en esto como yo. Los dos teníamos una manera bastante pobre de lidiar con nuestras emociones, y supe al segundo de darme cuenta que me había enamorado de ella que me iba a destrozar. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#abby-and-travis #beautiful-disaster #travis-maddox #walking-disaster #beauty

He, the man, had seen her, touched her, and had not validated her beauty, her womanliness. He had turned away and gone to his own bed. Like Eve after the fall, her nakedness was obscene to her now. ↗

— Naomi Ragen

#shame #unsatisfied #beauty

Kindly permit me to tell you, sir, that I hate you. I hate you and your child, as I hate the life of which you are the representative: cheap, ridiculous, but yet triumphant life, the everlasting antipodes and deadly enemy of beauty. I cannot say I despise you - for I am honest. You are stronger than I. I have no armour for the struggle between us, I have only the Word, avenging weapon of the weak. Today I have availed myself of this weapon. This letter is nothing but an act of revenge - you see how honourable I am - and if any word of mine is sharp and bright and beautiful enough to strike home, to make you feel the presence of a power you do not know, to shake even a minute your robust equilibrium, I shall rejoice indeed. - ↗

— Thomas Mann

#life #revenge #the-word #tristan #writing

As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says, "Stop sinning," it says, "Behold your God. ↗

— J.D. Greear

#sin #worship #beauty

For every(spiritual)community there is an object of discord,tension and diorder(fitnah),and for my community,this object is money ↗

— Anonymous

#beautiful #community #daily-life #depression #discord

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty

I know the consequences, Manon,” Ilyse conceded. “I know the fate you endured might one day be my own. But I refuse to be a prisoner for the rest of my life. ↗

— Melika Dannese Lux

#courage #defiance #freedom #ilyse-charpentier #iron-will

The goodnesses you do will beautifully cover you like the beautiful flowers covering a country house! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#beauty

Women are mere “beauties” in men’s culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty