"There is no exquisite beauty,” says Bacon, Lord Verulam, speaking truly of all the forms and genera of beauty, “without some strangeness in the proportion."

Edgar Allen Poe (via riita)

"There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal."

F. A. Hayek (via fetalmirage) (via hipsterlibertarian) (via pegobry)

"Since we all came from a woman, got our name from a woman, and our game from a woman. I wonder why we take from our women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think its time we killed for our women, time to heal our women, be real to our women, and if we don’t we’ll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can’t make one he has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one."

Tupac Shakur, Keep Ya Head Up (via apsies)

"If spring is the allegory for hope, then fall must be reflection, winter recreation, and summer the time for dreams."

Triangle, Susann Julieva (via risata) (via eclecticgi)

"A sovereign should never launch an army out of anger, a leader should never start a war out of wrath."

Sun-tzu (via mandalay)

mandalay: philsimmons: digital-marketing-diva, thelonelyastronaut

"A mother is a school. Empower her and you empower a great nation."

Hafez Ibrahim, Egyptian poet (1872-1932)

"Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of eternity has come to enrich time. Elsewhere the world may be blustering or sleeping, wars are fought, people live and die, some nations disintegrate, while others are born, soon to be swallowed up in turn - and in all this sound and fury, amidst eruptions and undertows, while the world goes its merry way, bursts into flames, tears itself apart and is reborn: human life continues to throb."

The Elegance of the Hedgehog (via quote-book) (via insolitus) (via hydrogen)

"What many people don’t realize is that the soul can benefit from instruction just as the mind can, and that this instruction is readily available. We just have to look, sometimes vigorously. It is a good thing to have a nourishing church experience every Sunday, for instance, but that is like going to a dinner where only a certain kind of food is likely to appear on the table. The soul may take a nibble, but it’s quite likely that what it really wants isn’t there. Unfettering the soul and letting it roam after its own peculiar nourishment is part of what assures spiritual development."

Alice Walker