"War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can invent them. This is the beginning, here." She touched his chest and felt a rush of love for the heart that moved his blood, for his smooth skin and his scars and his unsoldierly tenderness. She took his hand and pressed it to her breast and said, "We are the beginning."

-- Laini Taylor

#War Quotes #Heart Quotes #Blood Quotes

“People only live for forty or fifty years so if you were married for twenty or twenty-five of those then that was it. Now people live for eighty years and if your married for fifty or sixty of those you start to get on each other's nerves.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Once we start worrying too often or too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we might start selling our souls for the sake of expediency. I suggest if that day ever comes, then the press has had it.”
“The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language.”

Source : Jefferson Davis (1971). “The rise and fall of the Confederate Government”, Peter Smith Pub Inc
“If you want to grow, you must learn to let go.”
“If it's not chocolate, it's not breakfast.”
“It's not that pink is intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow, and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girl's identity to appearance.”

Source : "The ghettoisation of pink: how it has cornered the little-girl market" by Peggy Orenstein, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.
“Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation.”
“Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.”

Source : Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.33, BookBaby

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