"Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst. A need as vital to the soul as water is to the body. Love is a precious draught that not only soothes a parched throat, but it vitalizes a man. It fortifies him enough that he is willing to slay dragons for the woman who offers it. Take that draught of love from me and I will shrivel to dust. To take it from a man dying of thirst and give it to another whilst he watches is a cruelty I never thought you capable of."

-- Colleen Houck

#Love Is Quotes #Men Quotes #Dragons Quotes

“You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?”
“I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.”

Source : Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Solomon Northup, Olaudah Equiano (2016). “Slave Narratives Compilation: Twelve Years A Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave”, p.330, ShandonPress
“Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.”
“What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.”
“Our problem is not the lack of knowing; it is the lack of doing. Most people know far more than they think they do”
“When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.”
“My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.”
“Transformation always and necessarily calls for a transformation of oneself and one's environment. But I don't see that happening. People are stuck with their own positions that never change.”

Source : Source: evolutionarymystic.wordpress.com

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