#walls

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. ↗

— Aristophanes

#cities #foes #friends #high #learn

Hate isn’t the opposite of love, apathy is. Hating doesn’t free you from feeling anything. You have to carry it around, using every scar, every little memory like a building block. Like a stone in a wall, until you’ve created a new person, a new life that you can live with. ↗

— Rasmenia Massoud

#feeling #hate #life #love #reinventing-yourself

True strength is knowing that you don't have to be strong every single second of the day. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-strong #healing #heartbreak #letting-down-the-walls #letting-go

When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else. ↗

— Iyanla Vanzant

#iyanla-vanzant #spinach-soup-for-the-walls #inspirational

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. ↗

— Dogen Zenji

#attain #enlightenment #fences #plants #practice

I always drew dresses. I remember loving Richard Avedon's early Versace campaigns. I used to plaster my whole walls with them when I was a kid. ↗

— Sarah Burton

#campaigns #dresses #drew #early #i

And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#capitol #duty #hear #house #i

I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere. ↗

— Ray Davies

#get #i #just #more #person

If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world. ↗

— Don Dokken

#ceiling #covered #floor #gold #i

It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses. ↗

— Helge Ingstad

#buildings #clear #fishermen #houses #indian