#lessons in morality

[phoebe-does]

it’s an incredibly difficult time to be homeless. I have always had the privilege and fortune of a roof over my head and a place to sleep but not everyone has the same chance. Every day I see people on the street being treated like filth, ignored and no one makes eye contact with them. Start up a conversation, a simple hello, wave and something to eat or drink can turn around someone’s day. If you have the chance, ask them what they need and what you can provide. My rule of thumb is to share a meal with someone if that’s what they need, give them some company and talk to them while you eat together and if they don’t want food or water and just money, ask them what they’ll use this for. 

love is powerful and everyone deserves to feel loved and cared for. 

[virusmeadow]

Killing wears all possible costumes. There is no death, no murder that is better than any other. If you can kill me, the manner hardly bears consideration. You want to kill your own father, and you think it will make your sleep easier for the next seventy years if you can say you did it honorably. But your honor is blackened by patricide, and no amount of high-sounding formalities will make it white again.

Catherynne M. Valente, In the Night Garden

[starrover]

Wesley: There is a line, Lilah, black and white, good and evil.

Lilah: Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get grey. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but grey.

[starrover]

:"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral-immoral from the scientific point of view."

:"Why?"

:"Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for.

[starrover]

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

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