#reads

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. ↗

— Walter Scott

#centuries #contemporary #diary #document #dull

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#hostility #much #rule #too #too much

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#competition #dreads #fears #pride #rivals

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop. ↗

— Ice T

#called #city #come #cop #day

There's a fine line between being brave and just not giving a shit anymore. ↗

— Sara Furlong Burr

#indie-author #indie-books #science-fiction-romance #science

In every lifetime there is a moment. A moment so clear, so profoundly unique; that it stands out against billions of other moments. When you find a moment such as this one, you pay extra close attention to it. It will usually contain something that defines you in the future. (The Children of Ankh) ↗

— Kim Cormack

#love #reads #romance #sciencefiction #scifi

Libations are for the gods. Cocktails are for mere mortals. ↗

— Jonathan Kieran

#blogs #books #goodreads #humor #jonathan-kieran

The faithful of Shiva or Dionysus seek contact with those forces which...lead to a refusal of the politics, ambitions and limitations of ordinary social life. This does not involve simply a recognition of world harmony, but also an active participation in an experience which surpasses and upsets the order of material life. ↗

— Alain Daniélou

#dionysian-reads #dionysus #joy #shiva #experience

He cannot freshly harm me here, and for that I am grateful, but the harm he previously inflicted reverberates and grows. There is nothing to heal it but time. Even here, there is no other cure for heartbreak. I wish that death were a magical cure for all that ailed my spirit in life; it is one more thing I expected and found false. I arrive with the same baggage I carried with me in life. There is nowhere to lay it down here either, no more than a woman with child can lay aside her babe before its birth, for it is within me. I am as I was, just not encumbered with flesh. ↗

— Nell Gavin

#death

Never once in your days will you ever be loved by all ↗

— Aaron Ozee

#aaron-ozee #goodreads #ozee #www-goodreads-com #love