#age

Verbalize someone's actions back to them. Menace them with language, the language mirror. Death by feedback. ↗

— Ben Marcus

#death

The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. ↗

— Truman Capote

#change #life #change

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#tragedy

Language is a virus from outer space ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#language

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all. ↗

— Patricia A. McKillip

#language #meaning #words #language

Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#language #patriarchy #language

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#language

Know what you are talking about. ↗

— John Paul II

#language #language

I've gotten really hot since you went blind. ↗

— John Green

#blindness #exageration #stars

Beauty shouldn’t be about changing yourself to achieve an ideal or be more socially acceptable. Real beauty, the interesting, truly pleasing kind, is about honoring the beauty within you and without you. It’s about knowing that someone else’s definition of pretty has no hold over you. ↗

— Golda Poretsky

#body-image #inner-beauty #beauty