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"Why shouldn't we throw statues of colonisers and slave traders into the rivers? Especially if those statues are inexplicably in the countries where they enslaved, murdered and burned the locals?" — Jul 18, 2026 07:53AM
"Why shouldn't we throw statues of colonisers and slave traders into the rivers? Especially if those statues are inexplicably in the countries where they enslaved, murdered and burned the locals?" — Jul 18, 2026 07:53AM
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"'At the Last Judgment I shall not be asked whether I was successful in my ascetic exercises, nor how many bows and prostrations I made. Instead I shall be asked, Did I feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the sick and the prisoners. That is all I shall be asked...'" — Jul 14, 2026 12:23PM
"'At the Last Judgment I shall not be asked whether I was successful in my ascetic exercises, nor how many bows and prostrations I made. Instead I shall be asked, Did I feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the sick and the prisoners. That is all I shall be asked...'" — Jul 14, 2026 12:23PM
“You should try not to talk so much, friend,” he suggested. “You’ll sound far less stupid that way.”
― Mistborn Trilogy
― Mistborn Trilogy
“The heart itself is but a small vessel, yet there also are dragons and there are lions; there are poisonous beasts and all the treasures of evil. And there are rough and uneven roads; there are precipices. But there is also God, also the angels, the life and the kingdom, the light and the Apostles, the treasures of grace---there are all things.”
― Pseudo-Macarius: The Fifty Spiritual Homilies and The Great Letter (Classics of Western Spirituality
― Pseudo-Macarius: The Fifty Spiritual Homilies and The Great Letter (Classics of Western Spirituality
“If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern the countries; at least they will steal only the bananas!”
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“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”
So you were born to feel “nice”? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?
You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you.”
― Meditations
So you were born to feel “nice”? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?
You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you.”
― Meditations
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