#he

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#shame #the-gay-science #science

Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook, something to clutch on to in the world. Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for re-creating the past, for dealing with the future. ↗

— Charles Yu

#worry #science

Somewhere out there the world must have an end. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#must #out #somewhere #world

The fact is that camels are far more intelligent than dolphins. They are so much brighter that they soon realised that the most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendants not to spend a lot of time on a slab with electrodes clamped to their brains or sticking mines on the bottom of ships or being patronized rigid by zoologists, is to make bloody certain humans don't find out about it. So they long ago plumped for a lifestyle that, in return for a certain amount of porterage and being prodded with sticks, allowed them adequate food and grooming and the chance to spit in a human's eye and get away with it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#dolphins #hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-galaxy #humor #pratchett #pyramids

Well, Kessa, I am glad to see that you're taking your body seriously. I shudder when I see the girls leaving class and heading for the nearest hamburger, coke, and French fry station.The thought of them pouring all those dead calories into themselves makes me want to cry. You'd think after a rigorous dance class they'd have more respect for their bodies. ↗

— Steven Levenkron

#calories #dance #eating #eating-disorder #fitness

Most anti-vaccine books claim that all shots are bad, the diseases aren't really anything to fear, and as long as you live a natural and healthy lifestyle, you don't have to worry. I think this is a very irresponsible approach to the vaccine issue. Vaccines are beneficial in ridding our population of both serious and nonserious diseases. ↗

— Robert W. Sears

#health #vaccines #nature

If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, then it's good enough for Texas. ↗

— Ma Ferguson

#english #enough #good #jesus #jesus christ

When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one. ↗

— Princess Margaret

#growing up #i #made #out #she

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#ignorance #lengthened #shadow

Warlock,” he said. “I know who you are.” Magnus raised his eyebrows. “You do?” “Magnus Bane. Destroyer of the demon Marabas. Son of—” “Now,” said Magnus, quickly. “There’s no need to go into all of that.” “But there is.” The demon sounded reasonable, even amused. “If it is infernal assistance you require, why not summon your father?” Alec looked at Magnus with his mouth open. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#demon #magnus-bane #warlock #father