#ect

* What we do to others, we do to ourselves. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#love #respect #love

A girl's body was a prize. It had to be more than asked for. It had to be earned, worshipped, and avowed. ↗

— Leanna Renee Hieber

#respect #love

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#intellectualism #reactions #seeing #understanding #judgment

Nowadays, you can do anything that you want—anal, oral, fisting—but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#condoms #fisting #liberalism #oral-sex #protection

He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#introspection

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn ↗

— Robert Frost

#on-writing #reflection #introspection

Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#therapy #introspection

I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I’m a weak person, that I bruise easily, don’t you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing. It’s like a cardboard house: a puff of wind might carry it off somewhere. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#philosophy #society #weakness #introspection

My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves" -Socrates ↗

— Socrates

#introspection #ourselves #psyche #self-awareness #introspection

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#introspection