#evil

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself. ↗

— Teresa of Ávila

#evil #fear #life

Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life

Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one's life," Asher said. "A day is made of a thousand decisions, most small, some huge. With each decision you have the chance to work toward light, or sink toward darkness. ↗

— Cate Tiernan

#good #goodness #life

This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#good #good-and-evil #life #life

Elaine: He saved my life twice. He's the only grown-up I know who keeps his promises. Michael: Yes. It is a point of pride with him. But please — don't mistake it for a virtue. ↗

— Mike Carey

#pride #virtue #life

My darling love, I think you have a fundamental misconception about what it means to be a great dandy. I have better taste than anyone else so I don't care what anyone else thinks about anything. I am right and they are wrong. ↗

— Miranda Neville

#dandy #miranda-neville #romance #tarquin-compton #education

Buggeration, my arse is bruised beyond relief. ↗

— Arisu Riddle

#funny-formulation #funny

If someone slaps you on one cheek, offer the other cheek also... but of course if you were able to stand soberly after the first slap. ↗

— Toba Beta

#emotional #evil #life #patient #resistance

An evil can only be killed by another kind of evil, because the pure spirit of peace can not do killing. ↗

— Toba Beta

#evil #kill #life #peace #pure-spirit

Jesus Christ.” The fury on Nick’s face was enough to send me reeling and he hit the table hard enough with his hand that it made the plates and the silverware on the table bounce and clatter. “You give me the names and approximate location of those men who gave you that ultimatum and I’ll kill every goddamned one of them.” I sighed before I said quietly. “I already did. ↗

— Cheyenne McCray

#justice #life #life