#is

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer. ↗

— Nat Turner

#avoided #devoting #discovered #fasting #great

But what is certain is that in five, ten or twenty years, this problem unique to our time, according to him, will no longer exist, it will be replaced by others...Yet this music, the sound of this rain on the windows, the great mournful creaking of the cedar tree in the garden outside, this moment, so tender, so strange in the middle of war, this will never change, not this, this is forever. ↗

— Irène Némirovsky

#change

If you're not happy in life then you need to change, calibrate, readjust...flush your negative energy and fill it with positive energy; How do we do that you might ask? well I would start by making others happy, deseases are not the only thing that spreads easy. We are all connected in some form of unseen energy... think how those around you will impact you and make you feel if they were happy? ↗

— Al Munoz

#happiness #inspirational #life #philosophy #truth

Luthiel: I cannot change what will happen. I can only change how I act in the face of it. ↗

— Robert Fanney

#luthiel #resolve #willpower #change

Only mystery makes us live. Only mystery. ↗

— Federico García Lorca

#poetry #spanish #inspirational

The faithful of Shiva or Dionysus seek contact with those forces which...lead to a refusal of the politics, ambitions and limitations of ordinary social life. This does not involve simply a recognition of world harmony, but also an active participation in an experience which surpasses and upsets the order of material life. ↗

— Alain Daniélou

#dionysian-reads #dionysus #joy #shiva #experience

To be wrecked begins with an experience that pulls you out of your comfort zone and self-centeredness, whether you want it or not. ↗

— Jeff Goins

#selfishness #wrecked #experience

It's only when you learn, live and give sincere service that you can experience life's deepest fulfillment and true joy ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#fulfillment #joy #vision #experience

Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#individuality #experience

Women may fall when there's no strength in men. Act II ↗

— William Shakespeare

#marriage #men #wisdom #women #faith