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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
“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
“The knowledge of what is mine and what is not mine, what I can and cannot do. I must die. But must I die bawling? I must be exiled; but is there anything to keep me from going with a smile, calm and self-composed?”
― Discourses and Selected Writings
― Discourses and Selected Writings
“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
“Whatever is at the center of your life is your god”
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“You should try not to talk so much, friend,” he suggested. “You’ll sound far less stupid that way.”
― Mistborn Trilogy
― Mistborn Trilogy
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