When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, is called love.
-Socrates
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, is called love.
-Socrates
To uphold righteousness, so supreme an act did he perform; he gave his head, but did not utter a word of sorrow. For the sake of righteousness, he did this great heroic deed; he laid down his life but not the principles… Guru Tegh Bahadur broke his earthly vase on the head of the Emperor of Delhi – and went to the abode of God.
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
-David Levithan
Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-Oscar Wilde
By degrees, little by little, from time to time, a wise person should remove his own impurities as a smith removes the dross from silver.