"If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky."

-- Alice Hoffman

#Blue Quotes #Sky Quotes #Forever Quotes

“For all kinds of reasons, it is more difficult to track women's lives. Women's words have simply been considered less important, so they have been preserved less often.”

Source : Source: www.neh.gov
“Love is not feeling, child, nor even the passion of lovers, which always seeks only its own gratification. It is the act of caring, of giving, the act of protecting the weak, the helpless, the imprisoned and the desperate. Love is the hand raised in defence. You cannot love and keep your hands clean.”

Source : Patricia Duncker (1999). “James Miranda Barry”
“Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.”

Source : "The 2015 GLAAD Media Awards: 5 Powerful and Inspiring Quotes" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. May 9, 2015.
“Tell Youth to play with Wine and Love and never bear away the scars! I may as well tilt up the sky and yet try not to spill the stars.”

Source : Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”
“Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.”
“The theme that runs through all my books is connection. Connection - physical and non-physical - with other humans, and connection with nature are necessary for our well-being. Without it, we are depressed, lonely, and fail to thrive.”

Source : Source: www.maryannhenry.com
“The common-sense notion that 'there is a time and a place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.”
“Hermeticism is the science of nature hidden in the hieroglyphics and symbols of the ancient world. It is the search for the principle of life, along with the dream (for those who have not yet achieved it) of accomplishing the great work, that is the reproduction by man of the divine, natural fire which creates and recreates beings.”

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