"A great deal of life will always suck."
Katherine May, Wintering
"No matter how much the deceased were loved, life did not wait for the grieving. Though on the inside everything would change and what used to matter fell away, the routine and ordinary remained unchallenged."
T.A. Willberg, Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder
"God give me the confidence of a mediocre white dude."
Sarah Hagi
Pauline Harmange, I Hate Men
"May I have the courage today
To live the life that I would love,
To postpone my dream no longer
But do at last what I came here for
And waste my heart on fear no more."
John O'Donohue
Elizabeth Lesser, Cassandra Speaks
"Sometimes it is the part of us that is not like others that makes us special, that is our talent. I would go so far to say sometimes it is the antisocial piece, the part that makes it hard to be the hit of the party, that makes us wonderful. It was very hard for me to get to that part and make it my own."
Sharon Stone, The Beauty of Living Twice
"The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'"
Brian Eno
"It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil. It'comes what comes out of their mouths that is."
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
"If a person is living out his Personal Legend, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time."
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
"There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger, in the midst of lying and unjust men."
Marcus Aurelius
"There is nothing inherently sinful about being human… There's nothing sinful about the body, or sex, or sexuality. Being human isn't a punishment, or something we need to endure, or transcend. Being human is the whole point.""
Meggan Watterson, Mary Magdalene Revealed
"...it wasn't the bible that terrified me, it was the way it has been interpreted."
Meggan Watterson, Mary Magdalene Revealed
"...similar to the power of lust, or the realm of the flesh, anger is healing. To feel and express anger feels healthy. Anger creates appropriate boundaries with people who aren't supporting us or who aren't good for us to be around. Anger can flood the system with a sense of clarity and purpose. We sometimes know what we stand for and what we care about most about from the presence of anger. Anger protects us and often protects others we love and those who can't defend themselves. Anger, for anyone who has been silenced or made to feel insignificant, is a declaration that they actually matter. That their voice matters. That they are not to be silenced ever again. Anger in these situations is holy Anger in the face of injustice is an act of love. It's a statement of unifying ourselves with a stranger saying, "I won't let you be treated as I would not want to be treated myself." Anger can be motivating and unifying. As the mystic William Blake relates, "The voice of honest indignation is the voice of god."
Meggan Watterson, Mary Magdalene Revealed
"...we cannot believe in ourselves if we don't remember that we are worthy of that belief."
Meggan Watterson, Mary Magdalene Revealed
"...the real beauty lies in the achievement, not the attainment, of a goal. Trying to hold on to the achievement lessens the value of the achievement itself, and can even blemish it. The enjoyment is in the process and the celebration of the achievement and what it represents. It can never be recreated or reformed, because then it would be something new and different. In order to really achieve something, there is no attainment. It's gone the moment you reach the achievement."
Hillary Allen, Out and Back
"When haters go after your looks and differences, it means they have nowhere left to go... and then you know you're winning."
Greta Thunberg
"ekki hugsa"
Ólafur Arnalds