And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Walt Whitman

(Source: fine-and-bold)

“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.”

—Leonardo da Vinci

(Source: missfolly)

The man who is not inwardly prepared for violence is always lower than that which makes him violent.
Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago , 1973 (via missfolly)