#phil

It just doesn’t make spiritual sense to suggest that the evil all lies “out there” with our adversaries and enemies, and none of it is “in here” with us—embedded in our own attitudes, behaviors, and policies. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#political-philosophy #attitude

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#psychology #anger

Silence does not always imply consent. Sometimes it simply means that the silent one has opted out of a discussion with idiots. ↗

— Lex Allen

#philosophical-humor #attitude

¿Qué tienen esos momentos intemporales que luego siempre se recuerdan con una dulce melancolía? A veces me parece que es en esos intervalos de vacío, sin que fuera consciente de ello, cuando he vivido de manera más real y auténtica. ↗

— John Banville

#philosophy-of-life #attitude

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#beauty #cosmos #philosophy #science #universe

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. ↗

— Harper Lee

#philosophy #wisdom #life

The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people. ↗

— Isobelle Carmody

#life #philosophical #wounds #life

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been. ↗

— Aberjhani

#faith #healing #inner-peace #innocence #life-and-death

Everything, no matter how beautiful, is only with us for awhile. ↗

— Geoff Ryman

#beauty

There are some people that you just can't help but look at. Not necessarily because they're beautiful, just because you see them, and you know, you just know, that they're gonna be something special. You can just feel it when you're in their presence. ↗

— L

#philosphical #special #beauty