Our resistance is not predicated on how likely it will be to alter the conscience of the oppressor.
We resist to retain our own conscience.
And to awaken all others who are stillin possession of their own souls.
Cole Arthur Riley
Category: QOTD
Wisdom from Ted Lasso
“I hope that either all of us, or none of us, are judged by the actions of our weakest moments. But rather, by the strength we show when, and if, we’re ever given a second chance.“
QotD
“Why can’t I tell him this? I suppose I’m afraid my joylessness will take away his happiness and maybe I don’t want his feelings to depend on mine anymore. Maybe I want to be joyfully joyless. A forever switch of wild opposites at play.”
Claudia – Interview with the Vampire – Season 2, Episode 2
Wisdom from The Blacklist
Season 9, Episode 4 “The Avenging Angel (No. 49)”
Red: …She judged people based on their worst day, by the most terrible sin they committed.
Cooper: Shouldn’t we be judged by that?
Red: I don’t think so. If that were the standard, we’d all be found wanting.
Cooper: Then by what standard should we be judged, if not by the worst day of our life?
Red: By every other day. We all have the devil in us, Harold, but the best of us have angels, too.
QotD
You start dying slowly
if you do not travel,
if you do not read,
If you do not listen to the sounds of life,
If you do not appreciate yourself.
You start dying slowly
When you kill your self-esteem;
When you do not let others help you.
You start dying slowly
If you become a slave of your habits,
Walking everyday on the same paths…
If you do not change your routine,
If you do not wear different colours
Or you do not speak to those you don’t know.
You start dying slowly
If you avoid to feel passion
And their turbulent emotions;
Those which make your eyes glisten
And your heart beat fast.
You start dying slowly
If you do not change your life when you are not satisfied with your job, or with your love,
If you do not risk what is safe for the uncertain,
If you do not go after a dream,
If you do not allow yourself,
At least once in your lifetime,
To run away from sensible advice.
—Pablo Neruda
QotD
Wisdom from The Blacklist “The Djinn (No.43)”
“You’re so homophobic that being gay is a hideous crime, but chopping off a man’s penis isn’t? Honestly, is it just me, or is the human race, armed with religion poisoned by prejudice and absolutely frantic with hatred and fear, galloping pell-mell back to the dark ages?”
QotD
“To sit alone or with a few friends, half-drunk under a full moon, you just understand how lucky you are; it’s a story you can’t tell. It’s a story you almost by definition, can’t share. I’ve learned in real time to look at those things and realize: I just had a really good moment.”
–Anthony Bourdain
Sources:
Photo: A Cook’s Tour
Quote: Popula, 2018
Link: http://www.popula.com/2018/07/15/bourdain-confidential/
QotD
“To not dance when you had the health and could hear the music could be the biggest regret of your life”. – Unknown
QotD
“And if it wasn’t real?” came the voice critically, scrutinising her.
She squeezed her eyes shut and thought for a moment. “It was nice,” she repeated, “even if it wasn’t real.”
– Sue Zhao (via blossomfully)
Quote of the day
Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready.
— Nayyirah Waheed
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