#old

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#means #new #new philosophy #old #philosophy

Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But what right, I ask, has the law to presume at all on the subject? ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#again #ask #be kind #his #husband

Jesus is supposed to be the Alpha and the Omega, but in the Bible he's neither. He's stuck in the middle like the letter Q. ↗

— Jim Adam

#christianity #inspirational #jesus #old-testament #inspirational

Golden Rule Living is the great simplifier. It places us in another soul’s shoes, taking what can appear to be a com- plex decision that involves another and streamlining it to a one-step process of deciding, “If I wouldn’t like this done to me, then I shall not do it to another. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#earth #god #golden-rule #heaven #honor

People who tell untruths are easily deceived because they have placed their energy in that negative vibration location and are now a match for that behavior. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#deceived #energy #golden-rule #honor #inspiration

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#chimerical #country #faces #father #feeling

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he had to, to avoid risking exposure to physical violence. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn't matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#cowardice #fear #martial-heroics #physical-violence #playing-dead

Bless God, he went as soldiers, His musket on his breast— Grant God, he charge the bravest Of all the martial blest! Please God, might I behold him In epauletted white— I should not fear the foe then— I should not fear the fight! ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#inspirational #soldiers #war #inspirational

Am auzit sau am citit că filoanele de aur au uneori la suprafață un înveliș de cuarț, din care e greu să extragi metalul. Presupun că și inima ta are un asemenea înveliș; înăuntru se află metalul prețios, dar afurisita asta de coajă nu s-a topit de tot... ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#heart #inspirational #surface #inspirational

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#j-k-rowling #voldemort #inspirational