“Selver, how is it with these creatures, then? They look like men and talk like men, are they not men?”

“I don’t know. Do men kill men, except in madness? Does any beast kill its own kind? Only the insects. These yumens kill us as lightly as we kill snakes. The one who taught me said that they kill one another, in quarrels, and also in groups, like ants fighting. I haven’t seen that. But I know they don’t spare one who asks life. They will strike a bowed neck, I have seen it!..”

Ursula K. Le Guin - The word for World is Forest

antigonick:

You think you know yourself inside out when you live alone, but you don’t, you believe you are a calm untroubled or at worst melancholic person, you do not realise how irritable you are, how any little thing, the wrong kind of touch or tone, a lack of speed in answering a question, a particular cast of expression will send you into apoplexy because you are unchill, because you have not learnt how to soften your borders, how to make room. You’re selfish and rigid and absorbed, you’re like an infant.

—Olivia Laing, Crudo

fakescenariosonly:

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

- Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

surqrised:

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”

— Jane Austen

reddy-reads:

Spending six hours to get a machine to do

what any human off the street would do for tuppence….

🗡

Sir Terry, please…

terrypratchettappreciation:

“The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practise before doing it for real.”

—

  —  Pyramids (Terry Pratchett)

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“Sometimes overemphasis on our own mistakes causes us to forget the Magnificence and Mercy of the One who has promised to forgive these same mistakes when we sincerely turn to Him.”

Najwa Awad & Sarah Sultan - Your Lord has not Forsaken you

“دَافع الخَطرة ؛ فإن لم تفعل ،صارت فكرة

فدافع الفكرة ؛ فإن لم تفعل ،صارت شهوة

فحاربها ، فإن لم تفعل ،صارت عزيمة وهمة

فإن لم تدفعها ،صارت فعلاُ

فإن لم تتداركه بضده ،صار عادة ،فيصعب عليك الانتقال عنها.”

ابن القيم - الفوائد

dailykafka:

ALT

— Franz Kafka, Letter to his father

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mantabay:

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson (via ladiesforloveandjustice)

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