#watch

Either you will be you or you will not be at all. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy #poetry

What we call life is only talk of nature. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #life #literature #literature-quotes #nature

Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#christ #dejan-stojanovic #giordano-bruno #jesus-christ #poetry

The universe is God's son. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#god #god-s-son #literature #philosophy #poetry

I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or the sufferings of Christ? I thought the chief reason was that one was told one ought to. An obligation to feel can freeze feelings. And reverence itself did harm. The whole subject was associated with lowered voices; almost as if it were something medical. But supposing that by casting all these things into an imaginary world, stripping them of their stained-glass and Sunday School associations, one could make them for the first time appear in their real potency? Could one not thus steal past those watchful dragons? I thought one could. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#dragons #narnia #past-watchful-dragons #potency #reverence

We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#books #brightness #dejan-stojanovic #glow #literature

In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies. ↗

— Jack Adams

#been #had #japanese #out #spies

For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#cynical #die #end #front #hand

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#believe #conflicts #different #entirely #everybody

I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#call #fall #foot #hear #i