#wi

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#defense #democracy #inspirational #romance #wisdom

so easy to take leave from the scent from the hue simply to tuck a hand under one's head and fall asleep the wind will not awake one the bee will not caress one with its dark wings to give oneself to the earth so hugely as to become not anything and not anywhere ↗

— Halina Poswiatowska. Polish poet.

#poetry #polish #poswiatowska #inspirational

Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. This should make a bond that held them all together; it should make them love and protect each other against the man-world. But it was not so. It seemed like their great birth pains shrank their hearts and their souls. They stuck together for only one thing: to trample on some other woman... whether it was by throwing stones or by mean gossip. It was the only kind of loyalty they seemed to have. Men were different. They might hate each other but they stuck together against the world and against any woman who would ensnare one of them. ↗

— Betty Smith

#wisdom #love

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#lgbt #oscar-wilde #men

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#frustration #perspective #wisdom #men

Only those who row the boat make waves ↗

— Christina Dodd

#inspirational #true #wisdom #inspirational

History doesn't remember gardens. … You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn’t feel embarrassed, though. So did history. ↗

— Andrew Ashling

#history-politics #peacekeepers #wisdom-inspirational #inspirational

You know that our breathing is the inhaling and exhaling of air. The organ that serves for this is the lungs that lie round the heart so that the air passing through them thereby envelops the heart. Thus breathing is a natural way to the heart. And so having collected your mind within you lead it into the channel of breathing through which air reaches the heart and together with this inhaled air force your mind to descend into the heart and to remain there. ↗

— Nicephorus the Solitary

#inspirational #mindfulness #wisdom #inspirational

You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#friends #people #show #show people #willing

Giving is the only way of taking part ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#inspirational #life #philosophy #wisdom #inspirational