#stand

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#beautiful woman #delights #eye #pure #soul

So it wasn't actually that bad, it took a couple of weeks to sort of get used to uh, you know, standing around and pretending to have ice shoot out of your hand, but once you got used to that it uh, it was actually not that hard. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#around #bad #couple #get #got

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth. ↗

— Mary Astell

#concerns #great #insensible #know #matters

I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#because #characters #easily #i #i can

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#into #look #minds #must #people

The problem with Christianity is more people profess the truth than live it. So much hypocrisy abounds that I can no longer say I count myself among them without being held to the same unachievable standard. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#fake #false #hypocrisy #immorality #judgement

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood. ↗

— Ben Marcus

#storytelling #respect

she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to be rich enough to buy some land and live in peace with her for the rest of their days. It was his utter confidence in this fragile creature, that had made him fight with honor, because he knew that after a battle he could forget all the horrors of war in her arms, and that, despite all the women he had known, only there in her arms could he close his eyes and sleep like a child. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#safety #understanding #life

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around. ↗

— Criss Jami

#creative #different #difficulties #distinction #envy