#ice

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he had to, to avoid risking exposure to physical violence. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn't matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#cowardice #fear #martial-heroics #physical-violence #playing-dead

My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#life #meredith-gentry #nice #inspirational

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#bruce-lee #inspirational #inspirational

Never compromise your values. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#choice #inspirational #life #responsibility #truth

You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#inspiration #intuition #writing #inspirational

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest. ↗

— William Penn

#inspirational #justice #truth #inspirational

You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice. ↗

— Kris Vallotton

#love #sacrifice #self-sacrifice #inspirational

If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those who exist in the shadows will try to pull you into the darkness with them. The last thing that they want is for you to see the wonder of your life because they can't see theirs. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#envy #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #life-and-living #people

Don’t be disheartened by the forces of evil. Nothing can happen that God hasn’t allowed. Even resistance is all part of grand orchestration. The devil always has you right were God wants you. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#choice #devil #evil #god #inspirational

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#acting #artifice #falsehood #game #games