#pi

What exactly was the difference? he wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms? ↗

— John Boyne

#epiphany #holocaust #thoughts #holocaust

You cannot insult a wise man with wisdom. ↗

— Colin Tegerdine

#life #wisdom #inspirational

Dav­el­lon may be a vil­lage, but the Dav­el­lon House can be any­thing you make it. No­bil­ity has to start some­where. It might as well start with you. Let no­body look down on you, for what­ever rea­son, My Lord. Ti­tles are granted or in­her­ited, no­bil­ity isn't. ~Tenaxos I to Landar Parmingh, Baron Davellon ↗

— Andrew Ashling

#nobility #nobility-of-spirit #noble #titles #nobility

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself. ↗

— George Orwell

#life #inspirational

He also didn't mind Piper's using him for a pillow. She had a cute way of breathing when she slept - inhaling through the nose, exhaling with a little puff through the mouth. He was also disappointed when she woke up. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#jason-grace #piper #piper-mclean #cute

Conquer anger by love, evil by good; conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#knowledge #love #truth #wisdom #anger

Piper gave Lit a friendly sorry-about-that smile. Even with her hair messed up and wearing two-day-old clothes, she looked extremely cute, and Jason felt a little jealous she was giving Lit that smile. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#jason-grace #lit #piper #piper-mclean #cute

When I was in Auschwitz, I kept asking, why am I here, what did I do wrong? What did my grandfather do wrong? And a young American man, he put me in the right knowledge. You didn’t do anything wrong, he said, the world did something wrong, terribly wrong. This young man, he went to Budapest in the beginning of it all, and he saved Jews, he gave out passports of Sweden, and because the Hungarians didn’t know how to read Swedish, this was how my father was saved. And thousands of others too, with these pieces of paper. I am here to tell you that one man can make a difference, and that man can be you, any of you… ↗

— Alice Lok Cahana

#heroes #holocaust #humanity #kindness #spirituality

Vanity, thy name is vampire. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#thomas-raith #vampires #vanity #vanity

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#pride #vanity #vanity