#tan

When people learn to accept other people, anger and jealously wont exist ↗

— Alia

#anger

Barristan Semly was not a bookish man, but he had often glanced through the pages of the White Book, where the deeds of his predecessors had been recorded. Some had been heroes, some weaklings, knaves, or cravens. Most were only men - quicker and stronger than most, more skilled with sword and shield, but still prey to pride, ambition, lust, love, anger, jealousy, greed for gold, hunger for power, and all the other failing that afflicted lesser mortals. The best of them overcame their flaws, did their duty, and died with their swords in their hands. The worst ... The worst were those who played the game of thrones. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#the-kingsguard #the-white-cloaks #anger

Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#art

The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. ↗

— Margaret Chase Smith

#character #easy #easy way #moral #moral character

Benny Anger: What's up, doc? Doc Manhattan: "Up" is a relative concept; it has no intrinsic value. ↗

— Alan Moore

#watchmen #anger

I see her body as an arousing work of architecture. A sky-scraping building that I wouldn’t mind laying over a mountain to inject my whale-sized shank through its front entrance, knocking the doorman out of the way and flooding the lobby once I am finished with her. ↗

— Carlton Mellick III

#satan-burger #architecture

If you know the why, you can live any how. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#understanding #art

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying? ↗

— Voltaire

#volume #art

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest. ↗

— Thomas John Barnardo

#better #character #conduct #highest #importance

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16) ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#desire #expectations #fear #mystery #art