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#1

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism

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#2

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

tags: certainty, ignorance, knowledge, open-mindedness, science, willful-ignorance

831 likes

#3

“Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest on reciprocity.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: love, reciprocity

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#4

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude

4910 likes

#5

“I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

3008 likes

#6

“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: conscience, innocence

2840 likes

#7

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”
― Hannah Arendt

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#8

“If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—warm things, kind things, sweet things—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

tags: givers, giving, kindness

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#9

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: giving, helping-others

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#10

“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: giving, goals, goals-in-life, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, learn, learning, life, life-quotes, light, light-and-darkness, living-life, meaning, meaning-of-life, meaningful, meaningful-life, wisdom, wise

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#11

“What does one person give to another? He gives of himself, of the most precious he has, he gives of his life. This does not necessarily mean that he sacrifices his life for the other—but that he gives him of that which is alive in him; he gives him of his joy, of his interest, of his understanding, of his knowledge, of his humor, of his sadness—of all expressions and manifestations of that which is alive in him. In thus giving of his life, he enriches the other person, he enhances the other's sense of aliveness by enhancing his own sense of aliveness. He does not give in order to receive; giving is in itself exquisite joy. But in giving he cannot help bringing something to life in the other person, and this which is brought to life reflects back to him.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

tags: 1956, giving, loving

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#12

“May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: benediction, gift, light

3039 likes

#13

“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Christopher Roden; Tsukasa Kobayashi; Akane Higashiyama; Hiroshi Takata

tags: inspiration, light, sherlock-holmes

648 likes

#14

“If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.”
― Romain Rolland

tags: education, inspirational, light, teaching

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#15

“I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

tags: life, light, love

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#16

“The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: adversity, advice, books, bright, brightness, city-of-angels-movie, connected, dark, dark-angels, darkness, friendship, guardian-angels, inspiration, inspirational-authors, learned-lessons, life-lessons, light, moon, night, novels, plans, seekers, seeking, shine, sky, spiritual-guides, trials, white-paths, wisdom

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#17

“In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.”
― Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

tags: dark, healing, light, spiritual-life, wounds

522 likes

#18

“There is no denying that there is evil in this world but the light will always conquer the darkness.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

tags: darkness, darkness-and-light, evil, evil-men, evil-people, good-and-evil, good-vs-evil, light, light-and-darkness

361 likes

#19

“After a lifetime of darkness, I want to leave something behind that is made of light.”
― Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

tags: adelina-amouteru, darkness, light

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#20

“Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.”
― L.R. Knost

tags: darkness, hope-quotes, inspirational-quotes, light, world

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#21

“Those who love much, do much and accomplish much, and whatever is done with love is done well.... Love is the best and noblest thing in the human heart, especially when it is tested by life as gold is tested by fire. Happy is he who has loved much, and although he may have wavered and doubted, he has kept that divine spark alive and returned to what was in the beginning and ever shall be.

If only one keeps loving faithfully what is truly worth loving and does not squander one's love on trivial and insignificant and meaningless things then one will gradually obtain more light and grow stronger.”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

tags: beginnings, doubt, light, love, strength

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#22

“I coveted you. I had no right to want you--but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what's become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

tags: edward-cullen, seduction

634 likes

#23

“When I met a truly beautiful girl, I would tell her that if she spent the night with me, I would write a novel or a story about her. This usually worked; and if her name was to be in the title of the story, it almost always worked. Then, later, when we'd passed a night of delicious love-making together, after she’d gone and I’d felt that feeling of happiness mixed with sorrow, I sometimes would write a book or story about her. Sometimes her character, her way about herself, her love-making, it sometimes marked me so heavily that I couldn't go on in life and be happy unless I wrote a book or a story about that woman, the happy and sad memory of that woman. That was the only way to keep her, and to say goodbye to her without her ever leaving.”
― Roman Payne

tags: how-to-write, inspiration, literature, love-making, romance, seduction, sex, stories, women, writing, writing-advice, writing-novels

80 likes

#24

“What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.”
― Théophile Gautier, Mademoiselle de Maupin

tags: gratitude, love, seduction

26 likes

#25

“The key to such power is ambiguity. In a society where the roles everyone plays are obvious, the refusal to conform to any standard will excite interest. Be both masculine and feminine, impudent and charming, subtle and outrageous. Let other people worry about being socially acceptable; those types are a dime a dozen, and you are after a power greater than they can imagine.”
― Robert Greene, The Art of Seduction

tags: manipulation, seduction

87 likes

#26

“Horror immobolizes us because it is made of contradictory feelings: fear and seduction, repulsion and attraction. Horror is a fascination...Horror is immobility, the great yawn of empty space, the womb and the hole in the earth, the universal Mother and the great garbage heap...With horror we cannot have recourse to flight or combat, there remains only Adoration or Exorcism.”
― Octavio Paz

tags: adoration, earth, exorcism, fear, horror, mother, seduction

15 likes

#27

“Saints and Sinners may be separated by their actions, but they are united by their reaction to passion.”
― Gaiven Clairmont, Seductive Saints & Sensual Sinners Volume I

tags: seduction

19 likes

#28

“Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a heart and who is not wretchedly and hopelessly blasé feels his love increased by his happiness, and very often the best way to retain a lover ready to leave is to give one's self up to him without reserve.”
― Théophile Gautier, Mademoiselle de Maupin

tags: lovers, passion, romance, seduction

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#29

“Lilith can help women remember that— there was a time when you were not a slave. Remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter. You bathed, bare-bellied. You say you have lost all recollection of it— remember. You say there are no words to describe it, it does not exist. But remember. Make an effort to remember. Or, failing that. Invent.”
― Barbara Black Koltuv, The Book of Lilith

tags: empowerment, empowerment-of-women, femininity, feminism, lilith

2 likes

#30

“The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

tags: inferno-canto-vi-105

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