#of

The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night. ↗

— Yasunari Kawabata

#moonlight #night-sky #men

She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male. ↗

— James Joyce

#post-office #respect #women #men

It is one thing to read the Scriptures and affirm their truth. But until you are in the trenches of trial, until you are faced with life circumstances that test your faith, until you are pressed to the absolute limit of your physical and emotional capacity, until you face the unrelenting stress of ongoing trauma, you never really know how you'll respond to what you may have embraced so easily during a comfortable Bible study. ↗

— Kevin Malarkey

#inspirational #trials-of-life #faith

Success is not money, cars, fame or material possessions but the lives you touched positively. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#god #ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha #immortality #inspirational #leadership-torch

At one time, we all were Gods. ↗

— Bjorn Street

#eye-of-horus-mystery-school #high-priest #inspirational #master-ani #sci-fi

Only the lame could love and only the maimed could mourn ↗

— Kate Forsyth

#love #the-pool-of-two-moons #witches-of-eileanan #inspirational

We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found it on the highway would I take it," I said. Even if I were such a man as to desire this thing, and even though I knew not clearly what this thing was when I spoke, still I should take those words as a vow, and be held by them. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#lord-of-the-rings #men

Cunt again? It was odd how men like Suggs used that word to demean women when it was the only part of a woman they valued. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#asha-greyjoy #dance-with-dragons #song-of-ice-and-fire #men

There seemed to be an enormous space between them all the time at the moment and it was easier to bear if they weren't in the same room ↗

— Adele Parks

#love

misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#men