#misa

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#desperation #hope #inspiration #misattributed #tenacity

Live a good life. In the end it is not the years in a life, but the life in the years. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#enjoy-life #misattributed #life

I believe that human brilliance manifests itself only in flashes, among rare individuals. For this reason, humanity as a whole is enormously destructive: the creation of something as devastating as Western culture, which is now allowed to spread throughout the world, offers sufficient proof of this fact. ↗

— Pentti Linkola

#overpopulation #population #population-explosion #life

What counts is not the years in your life but the life in your years. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson II

#life

She could never take an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. The weak and flaccid parity would make her nearly puke. She wants an eye for a tooth, and a life for an eye. ↗

— Helen Zahavi

#revenge #life

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us. ↗

— Emil Cioran

#philosophy #love

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous. ↗

— Emil Cioran

#reproduction #love

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder. ↗

— Johann Georg Zimmermann

#beauty

When EVIL men make bad laws, righteous men disobey them." Pastor Butch Paugh ↗

— Tarrin P. Lupo

#misattributed #men

To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#misattributed #men