#ang

The mind is reluctant to embrace deep change, and will play devious games to maintain the status quo. ↗

— Kristin Linklater

#nature

Truth only exists for those who cling to it. "Sosuke Aizen ↗

— Tite Kubo

#cling #kubo #manga #tite #truth

Dattebayo! (Do you get what I am saying?!) ↗

— Masashi Kishimoto

#naruto #manga

We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left with this cluttered world of language. ↗

— Chuck Palanhiuk

#language #words #nature

I am not nor have I ever been a 'wild-eyed' charismatic, but rather an 'empowered evangelical' (Nathan)". ~R. Alan Woods [2006] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#empowered #evangelicalism #john-wimber #r-alan-woods #rich-nathan

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#nature #symbolism #nature

In classes, the more lively and uninhibited ones will “suck away the air” from those with a more passive nature, despite all the efforts of the teacher. It is also a special danger in large groups that you will hear your fellow students’ bad pronunciation more than the teacher’s perfected speech. ↗

— Kató Lomb

#nature

For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans. ↗

— Brian L. Weiss

#humans #past-lives #soulmates #souls #soulmates

I'm seven hundred years old, Alexander. I know when something isn't going to work. You won't even admit I exist to your parents." Alec stared at him. "I thought you were three hundred! You're seven huundred years old?" "Well," Magnus amended, "eight hundred. But I dont look it. Anyway, you're missing the point. The point is-" But Alec never found out what the point was because at that moment a dozen more Iblis demons flooded into the square. He felt his jaw drop. "Damn it." Magnus followed his gaze. the demons were already fanning out into a half circle around them, their yellow eyes glowing. "Way to change the subject, Lightwood. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#humor #magnus-bane #change

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#english #inadequacy-of-words #language #lose #loss