#ill

I decided to find you, throw myself at your feet, and beg you to have mercy on me. Honestly, I’ll accept whatever you choose, Kelsey. Just don’t ask me to live apart from you again. Because...I can’t. ↗

— Colleen Houck

#illness

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#innocence

Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#virtue #wish-fulfillment #writing #virtue

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#self-mastery #will-power #justice

He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#will-trombal #satisfaction

The sky is deep, the sky is dark. The light of the stars is o damn stark/When I look up, I fill with fear, if all we have is what lies here, this lonely world, this troubled place, then cold dead stars and empty space...Well, I see no reason to persevere, no reason to laugh or shed a tear, no reason to sleep and none to wake/ No promises to keep and none to make. And so at night I still raise my eyes tos tudy the clear but mysterious skies that arch avove us, cold as stone. Are you there God? Are we alone? ↗

— Dean Koontz

#perseverance

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears ↗

— Gillian Anderson

#perseverance

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#human race #knock #never #out #patriotism

He's not a killer. He just wins... Thoroughly ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#graff #killing #space #winning

You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#bill-watterson #calvin-and-hobbes #hugs #progress