#meta

Her only way home was to betray her friend. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#betrayal #fma #friend #full-metal-alchemist #naruto

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#inspirational #island #metaphysical-beliefs #metaphysics #faith

The Chair I’m writing to you, who made the archaic wooden chair look like a throne while you sat on it. Amidst your absence, I choose to sit on the floor, which is dusty as a dry Kansas day. I am stoic as a statue of Buddha, not wanting to bother the old wooden chair, which has been silent now for months. In this sunlit moment I think of you. I can still picture you sitting there-- your forehead wrinkled like an un-ironed shirt, the light splashed on your face, like holy water from St. Joseph’s. The chair, with rounded curves like that of a full-figured woman, seems as mellow as a monk in prayer. The breeze blows from beyond the curtains, as if your spirit has come back to rest. Now a cloud passes overhead, and I hush, waiting to hear what rests so heavily on the chair’s lumbering mind. Do not interrupt, even if the wind offers to carry your raspy voice like a wispy cloud. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#chair #insightful #metaphor #peaceful #pensive

A lesson without pain is meaningless. That's because no one can gain without sacrificing something. But by enduring that pain and overcoming it, he shall obtain a powerful, unmatched heart. A fullmetal heart. ↗

— Hiromu Arakawa

#fma #fullmetal-alchemist #hiromu-arakawa #endurance

Dying is the fastest route to fame for an aspiring rock star. The dead man’s melodies become profound, acquiring deep mystery and rising into a realm beyond the reach of human criticism. In the stopping of a heartbeat, the rocker is transformed from decadent, depraved hedonist into misunderstood genius. Aye, death and musical stardom go together like Scotland and rain. ↗

— Mark Rice

#fame #immortality #mark-rice #metallic-dreams #music

The "Wet Tongue Gets Stuck To A Frozen Flagpole" attack! ↗

— Hiromu Arakawa

#fighting #fullmetal-alchemist #humor #humor

Give me wings or I will make them. Either way I will fly. ↗

— Céline

#freedom #metaphor #freedom

You will not pass!” Roman thundered. Great. Now he had decided he was Gandalf. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#funny #gandalf #gunmetal-magic #ilona-andrews #lotr

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you. ↗

— Aberjhani

#inspirational-quotes #metaphysics #philosophy #poetry #self-esteem

We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. ↗

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#music #philosophy #music