#com

Judge that boy if you must; for debauchery, for objectifying innocence... but before you finalize your verdict, oh innocent reader, I beg you to scan again that last stanza. What you and I overlooked in our cloud of perversion and nasty objectification was the unrestrained joy of a little girl playing dress-up for the very first time. ↗

— Jake Vander Ark

#coming-of-age #judge #narrator #perfection #puppy-love

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance. ↗

— Vash Young

#advance #aside #brushing #comes #finer

Nay, father. Some of us have been killing giants today and aren't in the mood to have a tea party. - Thor, God of Thunder ↗

— Matt Fraction

#gods #mythology #age

The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats... ↗

— T.H. White

#communism #democrats #humor #politics #age

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#diplomacy #inspirational #communication

When you do talk to people, share what you are. Stop focusing on all the things that you aren’t. Stop focusing on all of the physical features that you think people won’t like about you. Stop focusing on your inabilities or lack of talent. Instead, focus on those physical features that you know people already love about you. Focus on your abilities and the talents that you do have. You have been blessed with all of the above, and that makes you worth getting to know in my book. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#confidence #friendliness #making-friends #self-esteem #self-worth

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#compare #finding #i #jazz #me

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits—the repetition through the ages is comedy. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#human-nature #humanity #repetition #tragedy #age

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#steve-jobs #courage

God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#career #communicating #creative #flourished #god