#story

Auschwitz was a dark epiphany, providing us with a terrible vision of what life is like when all sense of the sacred is lost and the human being--whoever he or she may be--is no longer revered as an inviolable mystery. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#inspirational #inspirational

Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident. ↗

— Moderata Fonte

#double-standards #feminism #gender #history #hypocrisy

Sometimes we have to inspire and encourage ourselves, through our personal narrative. And we start with what we know. ↗

— Deborah L. Parker

#inspirational #personal-story #inspirational

We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls... ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#story #storytelling #men

Intercourse was now forbidden to everyone but married people; bundling disappeared. In its place young courting couples engaged in "petting"--which, interpreted broadly, meant that they were could do anything sexual short of intercourse. Women were now held responsible for controlling men's beastly sexuality--halting them from simply plunging ahead--at the same time that they were expected to be sexually innocent: an impossible position. ↗

— Leora Tanenbaum

#history #sexuality #men

Qualquer jardim regado a dois é mais florido. ↗

— Fabiane Ribeiro livro "A Gente Ama A Gente Sonha"

#love-story #romance #inspirational

No perfection can last forever. Time tears at it; wears it down until it's nothing, just an empty shell. ↗

— Cassandra Giovanni

#romance #sob-story #story-of-the-broken-hearted #love

Tell me why it feels like you're a part of my soul? ↗

— Cassandra Giovanni

#meant-to-be #romance #love

di setiap pandangan mata,genggaman tangan,pelukan hangat,ada definisi cinta bagi tiap pasangan,ada pemahaman yang berbeda,ada pengertian yang berbeda,mungkin kamu akan lebih banyak terluka,tapi itu tidak akan membuatmu berhenti mencari cinta. A Perfect Love ↗

— Yuchita Erayani

#love-story #wise-words #love

Call them robbers and cutthroats--were they not amiable enough when they had sufficient to fill their bellies? Something was out of joint in a world that drove these men to steal. ↗

— Eiji Yoshikawa

#taira-no-kiyomori #the-heike-story #love