#in

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation? ↗

— Pascal Mercier

#honesty #illusions #perception #personality #self-awareness

Suffering should not define you as a woman! And just because you’re a man it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t affect you! HELP HER to remove the taboos and the loneliness surrounding this disease; be understanding, show empathy, and don’t accuse her of being sensitive, delicate, or overly dramatic – this is a big opportunity for you guys to show that you care and to be a real man! [Susan Sarandon on endometriosis awareness] ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#endometriosis #feminism #feminist #healthcare #illness

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. ↗

— George Sanders

#because #bored #good-bye #i #i am

A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#drinking #alcohol

here we were again , always saying good-bye ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#over-and-over-again #goodbye

And if you're doing a deal with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#cynical #cynicism

i want you, and i want you forever. one lifetime is simply not enough for me. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#breaking-dawn #twilight-quote #twilight

Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#breaking-dawn #twilight-quote #twilight

It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living. Because we are alone with the unfamiliar presence that has entered us; because everything we trust and are used to is for a moment taken away from us; because we stand in the midst of a transition where we cannot remain standing. That is why the sadness passes: the new presence inside us, the presence that has been added, has entered our heart, has gone into its innermost chamber and is no longer even there, - is already in our bloodstream. And we don't know what it was. We could easily be made to believe that nothing happened, and yet we have changed, as a house that a guest has entered changes. We can't say who has come, perhaps we will never know, but many signs indicate that the future enters us in this way in order to be transformed in us, long before it happens. And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the seemingly uneventful and motionless moment when our future steps into us is so much closer to life than that other loud and accidental point of time when it happens to us as if from outside. The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#change

Charity felt rather snoozy after the long sermon, and she was really very grateful when Reverend Meeps offered her a cup of tea. Church was not so bad when the minister remembered you were only human. ↗

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

#religious-faith #faith