#tonic

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#exalt #god #into #man #philosophy

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#great #hope #incentive #like #medicine

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#deepening #feel #found #growing #life

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. ↗

— Henry Miller

#invigorating #madness #makes #more #ones

In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#being #despair #doing #else #excitement

I know nothing about platonic love except that it is not to be found in the works of Plato. ↗

— Edgar Jepson

#except #found #i #know #love

I'm pretty intense when it comes to relationships, platonic ones as well. If I feel a connection with someone, I'm willing to go there. ↗

— Alexander Skarsgard

#connection #feel #go #i #i feel

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#biologically #book #community #community action #happens

But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself. ↗

— David Levithan

#gay #life #love #platonic-love #relationships

For love is a celestial harmony Of likely hearts compos'd of stars' concent, Which join together in sweet sympathy, To work each other's joy and true content, Which they have harbour'd since their first descent Out of their heavenly bowers, where they did see And know each other here belov'd to be. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#love #platonic-love #religion #love