#van

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

#born #conflict #knows #strength #vanquished

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

#dignity #enemy #our #vanity

I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60! ↗

— Taylor Swift

#around #become #blonde #bow #continue

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#ashes #choke #far #fire #lead

Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement. ↗

— Tacitus

#never #substantial #unite #vanquished #victor

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#blowing #candle #come #day #flame

But I didn't even see God in the show as being very spiritual, I see him or her, it, as being something that is just relevant and very important in her life. ↗

— Amber Tamblyn

#even #god #her #him #i

I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously. ↗

— Amber Tamblyn

#had #i #i think #raised #religiously

It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction. ↗

— Oliver Tambo

#apartheid #brings #countries #destruction #economic

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#advanced age #after #age #apparently #birth