#cher

If I offer you a glass of water, and bring back a cup of ice, I’m trying to teach you patience. And also that sometimes you get ice with no water, and later you’ll get water with no ice. Ah, but that’s life, no?
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— Jarod Kintz

#glass #guidance #ice #life #offer

If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough! ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#debauchery #decadence #poetry #life

Some days some times are remembered by me, in life’s all moments they are cherished by me ↗

— Amit Abraham

#days #moments #remembered #time #life

He [Maxime] was twenty, and already there was nothing left to surprise or disgust him. He had certainly dreamt of the most extreme forms of debauchery. Vice with him was not an abyss, as with certain old men, but a natural, external growth. ↗

— Émile Zola

#vice #men

But before he could either comfort me or commit further acts of violence upon my person, I spun away from him and made my drama queen moment complete by running away. ↗

— Rachel Hawkins

#drama-queen #running-away #sophie #violence #commitment

يظن الغمر أن الكتب تهدى ... ... أخاً فهم لإدراك العلوم وما يدرى الجهول بأن فيها ... ... غوامض حيرت عقل الفهيم إذا رمت العلوم بغير شيخ ... ... ضللت عن الصراط المستقيم وتلتبس الأمور عليك حتى ... ... تصير أضل من 'توما الحكيم ↗

— أبو حيان التوحيدي

#islam #knowledge #scholar #teacher #islam

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#fear #lasting #teacher

Every day is deeper and richer and more soulful. ↗

— Mariska Hargitay

#deeper #every #every day #more #richer

The aspirant would do well to avoid those ‘spiritual teachers’ who delight in pointing out the evils of the world. These are immature egos attempting to discard their own negativities by projecting them onto others. The true yogi is one who is like a lion with himself, always striving to eradicate that which shadows his inner light, and like a lamb with others, always striving to see their inner light, no matter how dense may be the clouds that hide it. He is the king of the jungle of his world. He hides from no one and seeks escape from nothing. (88) ↗

— Prem Prakash

#ego #evil #inner-light #spiritual-teachers #spirituality

A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward. ↗

— Lee Child

#honor #jack-reacher #service #duty