#king

I’ve been held down like a piece of meat while monsters disguised as men violated me again & again. ↗

— Gladys Lawson

#sex-trafficking #men

When a man showed up you didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at yours, because it's painful to see somebody so clear that it's like looking inside him, but then neither did you want to to look away and lose him completely. You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it may be, or you could relax and lose yourself. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#decision-making #inspirational #life #reality #truth

I'd be (...) lying there on my back with my clothes on and looking up at the ceiling and watching the cigarette smoke flow up slow and splash against the ceiling like the upside-down slow-motion moving picture of the ghost of a waterfall or like the pale uncertain spirit rising up out of your mouth on the last exhalation, the way the Egyptians figured it, to leave the horizontal tenement of clay in its ill-fitting pants and vest. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#men

Why do you look among the bad for those who are good? ↗

— Moffat Machingura

#looking #men-seeking-women #seeking #women-seeking-men #men

An idea weighs nothing, except on the mind. ↗

— A.T. Baron

#imagination #inspirational #thought-provoking #imagination

And suddenly I feel weak, like every question in my head has collided against each other and won't let me think. (pg. 108) ↗

— Mary E. Pearson

#inspirational

To which hand do I choose to strike with when both hands are guided by the same heart? ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#inspirational #inspiring #philosophical #religious #thought-provoking

(Riku and Mickey walk towards DiZ, who stands at the middle of an intersection) Riku: What are you making me choose now? DiZ: Will you take the road to light — or the road to darkness? Riku: Neither. I'm taking the middle road. (Riku walks past DiZ) DiZ: You mean the twilit road to nightfall? (Riku turns around) Riku: No...The road to dawn. ↗

— Square Enix

#kingdom-hearts-chain-of-memories #riku #inspirational

I know that when things are at their worst, something better is just around the corner if we just put one foot in front of the other and keep moving forward. ↗

— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

#positive-thinking #inspirational

Never Be Still unless you're resting. If you're not at rest, you should be taking action. ↗

— Brian A. Brown

#black #brian-a-brown #brian-c-brown #inspiration #inspirational