#us

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance. ↗

— Vash Young

#advance #aside #brushing #comes #finer

Adrian Mole's diary Easter Poor Jesus, it must have been dead awful for him. I wouldn't have the guts to do it myself. ↗

— Sue Townsend

#age

The mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness". ↗

— Leonard D. Orr

#conscious-breathing #immortality #meditation #new-age #new-age-movement

Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after. ↗

— Steven L. Peck

#eternity #existence #love #age

Well, you know, I might try out for the musical," I say real quick. [...] She nods and says, "You should. We need guys." [...] She smiles and says, "Break a leg" as I walk out. That was uncalled for. "Bitch," I say under my breath as the door closes. ↗

— Brent Crawford

#will-carter #music

I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#opinion #music

You read any Greek myths, puppy? The one about the gorgon Medusa, particularly? I used to wonder what could be so terrible that you couldn't survive even looking at it. Until I got a little older and I figured out the obvious answer. Everything. ↗

— Mike Carey & Peter Gross

#everything #gorgon #greek-myths #medusa #age

Daddy was overcome by the charm of this scene. "They're just so amazing at that age. So innocent. So ... pure. As pure as the snow they play in." He apparently hadn't noticed the places where the snow was distinctly yellow. ↗

— Josh Lieb

#age

Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must not forget that the subjection of women is so complete, and dates from such ages back that we are often unwilling to recognise the gulf that separates them from us. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#women-s-rights #age

Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had some intelligence, but that no man is likely to have arrived at complete and final truth on any subject whatever. When an intelligent man expresses a view which seems to us obviously absurd, we should not attempt to prove that it is somehow true, but we should try to understand how it ever came toseemtrue. Thisexercise of historical and psychological imagination at once enlarges the scope of our thinking, and helps us to realize how foolish many of our own cherished prejudices will seem to an age which has a different temper of mind. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#insight #intelligence #philosophy #tolerance #wisdom