#k

Lately, when I didn't have room to bitch, I didn't. Maturity, at last. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#maturity #skin-trade #maturity

Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#beyond-vietnam #maturity

I'm just a man, not a hero. just a boy, who wants to sing this song. ↗

— Gerard Way

#song-lyrics #welcome-to-the-black-parade #lyrics

..And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive ↗

— Keith Urban

#song-lyrics #lyrics

I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#obscurity #the-new-yorker #accomplishments

What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I'm very proud. ↗

— Louis Sachar

#writing #accomplishments

Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold And like the sky my soul is also turnin' Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind ↗

— Ray Lamontagne

#epiphany #gold #heart #moving-on #redemption

I am sitting here at thirty-six feeling like I am responsible for the holocaust for all that is toxic and wrong. Maybe it’s because I eat meat, and I stepped on three ants last Tuesday. ↗

— Amber Garibay

#guilt-quote #holocaust #karma #meat #responsible

If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing... ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#lauren-oliver #sam-kingston #sam

that's because it's from the night, and the night keeps secrets ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#night #deception