”What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.”
Susan Sontag 💬
“I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.”
Frida Kahlo 💬
“I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.”
Zenzile Miriam Makeba 💬
Right after posting my first entry for this week’s micro.blog challenge, I suddenly realised that all quotations I already posted here were from dead (and mostly white) men. So for this challenge, I will try to be more gender-inclusive with quotes from all over the world! 🌈🌍💬
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it”
Marcus Aurelius 💬
”A person can cry or laugh. Always when you’re crying you could be laughing, you have the choice. Crazy people know how to do this best because their minds are loose. So you can take the flexibility your mind is capable of and make it work for you.”
Andy Warhol 💬
“I’ve never met a person I couldn’t call a beauty”
Andy Warhol 💬
”There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”
Martin Luther King jr. 💬
“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”
André Gide 💬
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how”
Friedrich Nietzsche 💬
“Music is everything one listens to with the intention of listening to music”
Luciano Berio 💬
“When we are no longer able to change the situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Viktor Frankl 💬
”The practice of art isn’t to make a living, it’s to make your soul grow”
Kurt Vonnegut 💬
📚 Finished pt. 1 of Man’s search for meaning by Victor Frankl and it really is a life changing book. There’s so much to learn from a man who has endured the horrors of the holocaust.
“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.”