#tory

Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser. ↗

— Toba Beta

#law #life #preservation #preserve #rule

Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory. ↗

— Sarah Kay

#hands #life #past #story #life

Much of what we call History is the success stories of madmen. ↗

— John Holt

#history #education

Sometimes when we say "God is silent," what's really going on is that he hasn't told the story the way we wanted it told. He will be silent when we want him to fill in the blanks of the story we are creating. But with his own stories, the ones we live in, he is seldom silent. ↗

— Paul E. Miller

#prayer #story #life

A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story. ↗

— Isaac Babel

#narrative #on-fiction #reality #story #life

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#answer #existence #human #human existence #love is

In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#individual #world #life

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history. ↗

— Stacy Schiff

#facts-and-ideas #history #myth #life

The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart. ↗

— John Eldredge

#heart #life #story #life

Many in America, as one social historian wrote, 'believed implicitly that New York's social leaders went to bed in full evening dress, brushed their teeth in vintage champagne, married their daughters without exception to shady French counts, and arrayed their poodle dogs in diamond tiaras.'... ↗

— Greg King

#humor #age