#ki

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person. ↗

— Jonathan Tropper

#desperation #thinking #thoughts #wisdom #intelligence

Kishan shook his head. 'I'm not going to let you hurt her.' 'Hurt her? I'm not going to harm her. You, on the other hand, I'm going to destroy. ↗

— Colleen Houck

#kishan #ren #jealousy

There they were, the movers and shakers of Benjamin Franklin Hight - the sports stars, the cheerleaders, the good, the great, the gorgeous - bent over their pizzas. Trish sensed my angst and said, "My mother says girls like Lisa Shooty get the ultimate curse known to man." "What's that?" "Too much too soon." I looked at poor, cursed Lisa who had been sprayed with sex appeal at birth. She had gleaming teeth and long, raven-black curls. She threw back her head and laughed with diamond-studded joy. "When do you think the curse takes effect?" I asked. "Not in our lifetime," Trish answered. (Thwonk) ↗

— Joan Bauer

#humor #incrowd #jealousy #popular-kids #twonk

Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary. ↗

— Iveta Cherneva

#leadership #risk-taking #timid #leadership

Too many kings can ruin an army ↗

— Homer

#followers #kings #leaders #leadership #leadership-vs-management

But here’s a critical point—more open decision making processes also typically require open information sharing. If you are going to involve more people in the process, they have to have the right information on which to base their decisions. ↗

— Charlene Li

#leadership

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide... ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#education

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#alchohol #drinking #drugs #loneliness #melancholy

You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions were geared toward those kinds of killers – the monsters, the enemies. When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#breaking-dawn #motherhood #self-sacrifice #life

Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed, because they should not be fixed. You're aboard a ship setting sail, and the other person has joined the inland circus, or is boarding a different ship, and you just can't be with each other anymore. Because you shouldn't be. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#fixing-things #life #life-and-living #living-life #moving-on