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بلدٌ يقضي فيه المرء أوقاته متطلّعاً إلى السماء متأمّلا القمم الشاهقة ، هو بلدٌ لي ↗


— Amélie Nothomb


#mountains #novel #biography

Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity initiated by beauty thinking. A woman who is self-conscious can't relax to let her sensuality come into play. If she is hungry she will be tense. If she is "done up" she will be on the alert for her reflection in his eyes. If she is ashamed of her body, its movement will be stilled. If she does not feel entitled to claim attention, she will not demand that airspace to shine in. If his field of vision has been boxed in by "beauty"--a box continually shrinking--he simply will not see her, his real love, standing right before him. ↗


— Naomi Wolf


#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

Gather the stars if you wish it so Gather the songs and keep them. Gather the faces of women. Gather for keeping years and years. And then... Loosen your hands, let go and say good-bye. Let the stars and songs go. Let the faces and years go. Loosen your hands and say good-bye. ↗


— Carl Sandburg


#goodbye

... It seems to me / the the great bards of the 20th century are in Publicity / those Keatses and Shelleys singing the Colgate smile / Cosmic Coca-Cola, the pause the refreshes, / the make of car that will take us to the land of happiness. ↗


— Ernesto Cardenal


#marxism #poetry #catholicism

One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who learn the historical-critical method in their Bible classes appear to forget all about it when it comes time for them to be pastors. They are taught critical approaches to Scripture, they learn about the discrepancies and contradictions, they discover all sorts of historical errors and mistakes, they come to realize that it is difficult to know whether Moses existed or what Jesus actually said and did, they find that there are other books that were at one time considered canonical but that ultimately did not become part of Scripture (for example, other Gospels and Apocalypses), they come to recognize that a good number of the books of the Bible are pseudonymous (for example, written in the name of an apostle by someone else), that in fact we don't have the original copies of any of the biblical books but only copies made centuries later, all of which have been altered. They learn all of this, and yet when they enter church ministry they appear to put it back on the shelf. For reasons I will explore in the conclusion, pastors are, as a rule, reluctant to teach what they learned about the Bible in seminary. ↗


— Bart D. Ehrman


#church #god #ministry #pastor #religion

In the lie of truth lies the truth. ↗


— Dejan Stojanovic


#dejan-stojanovic #lie #lies #literature #literature-quotes

It rains And rains And rains. But there is a sky above the rain, Nothing can rot the sky. Earth has turned to mud. What of it? The heart of the planet is made of fire, of ardent sun. (from "A Rainy Day") ↗


— Visar Zhiti


#fire #rain #sun #poetry-quotes

Another power I don't have," said Lissa ruefully. I grinned. "Hey, I have yet to meet any spirit user who can throw a punch like you can. That was poetry in motion, Liss." She groaned. ↗


— Richelle Mead


#rose-hathaway #poetry-quotes

Wherever I go, I run into myself. ↗


— Dejan Stojanovic


#literature #literature-quotes #myself #myself-quatation #poems

يا حزين يا قـُـمـقـُم تحت بحر الضياع حزين أنا زيـَّك و إيه مستطاع ؟! الحزن ما بقالهوش جلال يا جدع ! الحزن زي البرد ... زي الصداع عجبي !!!! ↗


— صلاح جاهين


#poetry-quotes






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