#les

My theory is that hope is a form of madness. A benevolent one, sure, but madness all the same. Like an irrational superstition--broken mirrors and so forth--hope's not based on any kind of logic, it's just unfettered optimism, grounded in nothing but faith in things beyond our control. ↗

— Benjamin Wood

#life-lessons #superstition #faith

You have to live your life and not count on things being there tomorrow or the next day. ↗

— Tere Michaels

#life-lessons #faith

...don't be afraid to fall. Your wings will catch you. ↗

— Katie Kacvinsky

#fearless #faith

God uses these ways to call your attention : give you blessings more than what you deserve or put in you into tests more than what you can handle. ↗

— Cuyle Skeeter

#faith #god #test #faith

He's a gypsy killer. He has a special gypsy killing knife. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#breaking-up #breakups #broken-heart #broken-hearted #broken-hearted-quotes

Any situation, circumstance or challenge is just a distraction and as you remain true to your goals and trust in God they will fall away". ↗

— Michele Woolley

#faith #favor #miracles #self-esteem #self-help

We are the same, you and I. Whether samurai or night-hawk, the Suruga Dainagon or member of the Toudouza, it makes no difference. My sword is the proof...." These words, wrung from the very depths of his soul, surprised even Seigen himself. He had not risen in the world merely in order to satisfy his ambition, but in order to repudiate hierarchical society and the fixed class system. ↗

— Takayuki Yamaguchi

#equality #hierarchy #overcoming-obstacles #purpose #society

The air currents should take you to the wall in, I don’t know, ten minutes or so, but if you’re really in a hurry, take off your clothes and throw them away from you; for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#equality

Who then was the orthodox, who the freethinker? Where lay the true position, the true state of man? Should he descend into the all-consuming all-equalizing chaos, that ascetic-libertine state; or should he take his stand on the "Critical-Subjective," where empty bombast and a bourgeois strictness of morals contradicted each other? Ah, the principles and points of view constantly did that; it became so hard for Hans Castorp's civilian responsibility to distinguish between opposed positions, or even to keep the premises apart from each other and clear in his mind, that the temptation grew well-nigh irresistible to plunge head foremost into Naphtha's "morally chaotic All. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#human-nature #principles #equality

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#bravery #courage #dauntless #experience #life