#ai

It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#fair #fighting #change

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#pain #vulnerability #change

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#fear #hurt #pain #past #run

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ would take the slums out of people, and then they would take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature. ↗

— Ezra Taft Benson

#faith #self-improvement #change

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign. ↗

— Theodore White

#anywhere #campaign #excitement #match #presidential

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world. ↗

— William Allen White

#force #made #men #never #only

Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#fairy-tales #fear #wolves #change

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. ↗

— Ken Robinson

#failure #original #change

AIDS is a judgment we have brought upon ourselves. ↗

— Mary Whitehouse

#brought #judgment #ourselves #upon

She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I'd spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#pain #rape #sad #sadness #sexual-assault