#er

I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis. ↗

— Eric Davis

#eric #famous #i #just #people

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#growth #holy-spirit #self #experience

'Shoot the wounded... what we do to people who are the most vulnerable... we 'shoot the wounded.' As if they haven't suffered enough, we add to it by gossiping and treating hurt people like outcasts." ..."I think we killed Ronnie's spirit... Instead of coming alongside her and supporting her through this, I failed her... ↗

— Lynn Dove

#gossip #hypocrisy #rejection #religion #shooting-the-wounded

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#anybody #being #bricklayer #else #greater

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#fit #laws #like #made #people

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#carry #earth #had #hadn #here

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#heart #man #mere #ought #scientific

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#allow #created #governed #insect #laws

I don't take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

#antibiotics #any #aspirin #asthma #i

It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps. ↗

— Peter Straub

#terror #experience