#esp

Women may fail when there is no strength in man ↗

— William Shakespeare

#romance #romeo-juliet #sexes #shakespeare #men

I have always derived great comfort from William Shakespeare. After a depressing visit to the mirror or an unkind word from a girlfriend or an incredulous stare in the street, I say to myself: 'Well. Shakespeare looked like shit.' It works wonders. ↗

— Martin Amis

#money

where was I? in remarking that me is the envelopes and not nearly so much so, the often foolish letters inside. ↗

— Edward Gorey

#letter-art #letter-writing #letters #art

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#comparison #intolerance #itself #other #people

I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy." -white oleander ↗

— Janet Fitch

#claire #despair #music

When both our inner man and woman takes responsibility for themselves and lives their own truth, a joy and love begins to flow naturally between them. Healing means to develop the inner man and woman so that love can flow between them. Healing is to learn to love both our inner man and woman. It is to learn to live the truth of both the inner man and woman. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#female #healing #inner-man-and-woman #joy #love

Bosch had never liked Las Vegas, though he came often on cases. It shared a kinship with Los Angeles; both were places desperate people ran to. Often, when they ran from Los Angeles, they came here. It was the only place left. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#desperation #escape #las-vegas #los-angeles #nevada

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth ↗

— Albert Einstein

#independent-thought #respect

I am even The natural fool of fortune. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fortune #king-lear #william-shakespeare #nature

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#human-nature #responsibility #television #world #nature