#ty

There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect. Thus I lust over the flawless, and fall amorously forceless to the flawed. ↗

— Ilyas Kassam

#imperfect #kassam #love #perfection #philosophy

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough. ↗

— Jane Austen

#love #men #women #beauty

They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country. ↗

— Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#africa #better #capacity #country #help

Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#stupidity #secret

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think. ↗

— Adela Florence Nicolson

#fight #gods #judged #love #men

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#behavior #collective #evil #humanity #individual

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#achievement #final #incongruity #life #requires

The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris. ↗

— Xavier Niel

#mentality #no reason #paris #real #reason

When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90) ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#death #eternity #life #now #art

Death, is a beautiful conclusion to these short stories, that which we have so interestingly entitled, lives. ↗

— Kiar

#conclusion #death #lives #short-stories #beauty