#rut

There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#play

The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure. ↗

— Masashi Kishimoto

#failure

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#truth #youth #youth

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#truth-telling #writing #logic

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. ↗

— René Descartes

#rationality #truth #wisdom #logic

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#civil-disobedience #democracy #dissent #law #protest

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again. ↗

— Malcolm X

#police-brutality #power #resistance #solidarity #violence

Love does not cost anything. Kind words and deeds do not cost anything. The real beauty of the world is equal for everyone to see. It was given by God equally to all, without restrictions. Everyone, was given a beautiful vehicle in which to express love to others. Feelings are free to express and give to ourselves and each other through our willingness to give and care. What is complicated about this... Why have we made others feel they have to climb mountains and swim oceans in order to make a difference. All we need to understand my friends, is that human life was given equally to us all, not partially but in totality. The sun was given to all. It does not shine on the few. So, just has nature is indifferent to our station or situation, we need to know that we are all equal. We need to focus on the things that are constant and not place our values on things that can be blown away with the next, great, wind. Value life in what ever house it dwells. For when it comes time that we are all stripped to bare bones before the divine and facing eternity, we will understand that the only law we were meant to follow, was to love ourselves and each other. Nothing more...nothing less. ↗

— Carla Jo Masterson

#family #god #harmonysoup-com #humor #inspirational

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#law

There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#dreams