#dec

Then you can blame it on your parents,' I said, smiling. 'Won't that be a relief? ↗

— Richard Bachman

#decker #jones #rage #stephen-king #taunt

In the essence of truth lies deceit. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #essence #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy

Be aware that how you feel has a direct impact on your thinking process. When we set standards for ourselves they seem objective, but standards and goal-setting are totally subjective and personal." From The Biology of Success. ↗

— Robert Arnot

#decisions #success #goal-setting

¿Y si ella fuera distinta por completo? ¿Cuántas veces nos hace soñar una imagen, se convierte en la posibilidad de realizar todos nuestros deseos, pero al final la realidad resulta ser muy distinta?. La vida es una serie de sueños que acaban mal, es como una estrella fugaz que cumple los deseos de otra persona. ↗

— Federico Moccia

#sueños #vida #vida

There is a law of the natural worlds (the spiritual and the physical) and this is something I have understood: that for every genuine existence, for every real manifestation and occurrence, there are are ten thousand falsities. Before you meet what or who is genuine, you will first have met, or known of, what is fake; and ten thousand times so! There is no need to feel disappointments, any number below ten thousand deceptions renders you a lucky person! And you ask why is there a need for this to happen? Well, if you have not known what is false first, there is no way to understand what then comes which is truth. What is lesser is so afraid of what is genuine, that it finds it necessary to imitate and duplicate that imitation ten thousand times over, for fear that you will finally meet what is real. The more important that one existence is, the more imitations there are in the world. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#disappointments #fake #false #genuine #imitations

The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind in the water. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#simile #simile

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#delusion #extremism #fanaticism #fanatics #guerrilla-decontextualism

I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#ceaseless #colonial #come #courageous #decades

And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#also #assert #commitments #declared #effort

You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#crazy #declaring #got #guys #high