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Saint Augustine … insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to preach hatred and was not conducive to love must be interpreted allegorically and made to speak of charity. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#charity #christianity #saint-augustine #scripture #life

The most boring thing in the entire world," Brandy says, "is nudity." The second most boring thing, she says, is honesty. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#invisible-monsters #life #life

History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#lightness #life

The Catholic wisdom of the people... provides reasons for joy and humor even in the midst of a very hard life. ↗

— The Catholic Church

#humor #joy #piety #life

I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice in life. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#strippers #life

Obviously these are some exceptional young people, but what they have in common is that they were ordinary people who cared. They wanted to act, to do something, to make life better for other people—and they have. ↗

— Morgan Carroll

#advocacy #government #life

With infinite wisdom and care your life is constantly sustained because Nature flows through you. ↗

— Michael J. Cohen

#infinite #life #nature #sustained #wisdom

Bliss and suffering, it seems, always go hand in hand. ↗

— Kentetsu Takamori

#inspirational #religion #inspirational

Il ne fait aucun doute pour moi que la sagesse est le but principal de la vie et c'est pourquoi je reviens toujours aux stoïciens. Ils ont atteint la sagesse, on ne peut donc plus les appeler des philosophes au sens propre du terme. De mon point de vue, la sagesse est le terme naturel de la philosophie, sa fin dans les deux sens du mot. Une philosophie finit en sagesse et par là même disparaît. ↗

— Emil Cioran

#stoicism #wisdom #life

Ho there, it ignites! ↗

— Nicole Sager

#humor #ignispat #nathaniel #nicole-sager #humor