#ace

We should get jerseys, cause we make a good team; but yours would look better than mine, cause you're outta my league. ↗

— Relient K

#god-s-grace #grace #lyrics #relient-k #songs

But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#grave-peril #harry-dresden #human-race #harry-dresden

Nothing external to you has any power over you. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inner-peace #inner-peace

I've made peace with myself. Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win. Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#mercenary #resignation #inner-peace

Road-rage is really another expression of inner rage. However, because driving is such a trigger for millions of people, we have labelled it “road-rage”, directing the emotional dysfunction to an external circumstance rather than coming to terms with the internal condition. ↗

— Christopher Dines

#la-petite-fleur-publishing #manifest-your-bliss #inner-peace

There are many people who are consciously aware of their inner rage although they might not know exactly what it is and why it erupts in them. ↗

— Christopher Dines

#christopher-dines-quotes #la-petite-fleur-publishing #manifest-your-bliss #inner-peace

When you eliminate the Ego's intense desire to be correct, the clarity of the moment can come through. How simple is that? ↗

— Beth Johnson

#meditation #releasing #sacredness #self #self-help

I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once? ↗

— Bill Willingham

#fantasy-fiction #unwritten-preface #fantasy-fiction

We who were not so pathologically far out on the spectrum of self-involvement, we dwellers of the visible spectrum who could imagine how it felt to go beyond violet but were not ourselves beyond it, could see that David was wrong not to believe in his lovability and could imagine the pain of not believing in it. How easy and natural love is if you are well! And how gruesomely difficult--what a philosophically daunting contraption of self-interest and self-delusion love appears to be--if you are not! And yet ... the difference between well and not well is in more respects a difference of degree than of kind. Even though David laughed at my much milder addictions and liked to tell me that I couldn't even conceive of how moderate I was, I can still extrapolate from these addictions, and from the secretiveness and solipsism and radical isolation and raw animal craving that accompany them, to the extremity of his. I can imagine the sick mental pathways by which suicide comes to seem like the one consciousness-quenching substance that nobody can take away from you. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#david-foster-wallace #love #mental-illness #suicide #imagination

After my first few tastes I was pretty much hooked. I'd have dry spells, months without any or only piddling amounts of grace, but I never forgot about it or stopped wanting it. ↗

— Mark Vonnegut

#insane #insanity #mental-illness #mental-illness