#l

I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us? ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#english

I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#temptation

It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist. ↗

— Alexander Lowen

#cry #crying #emotions #feelings #sadness

The key to resisting Voice," Barrons instructed, "is finding that place inside you no one else can touch. "You mean the sidhe-seer place?" I said, hopping like a one-legged chicken. "No, a different place. All people have it. Not just sidhe-seers. We're born alone and we die alone. That place." "I don't get it." "I know. That's why you're hopping. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#faefever #fever-series #karen-marie-moning #mackayla #resistance

Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist the urge to try and rescue them. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#ichthyocentaur #leo #lobster-claws #mark-of-athena #valdez

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#lies #lying #silence #truth #lie

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#lies #lie

He is bound to you,” said the Queen. “But does he love you? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#seelie-queen #love

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#liar #lie #punishment #lie

Why should a man be scorned, if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it. In using Escape in this way the critics have chosen the wrong word, and, what is more, they are confusing, not always by sincere error, the Escape of the Prisoner with the Flight of the Deserter. just so a Party-spokesman might have labeled departure from the misery of the Fuhrer's or any other Reich and even criticism of it as treachery .... Not only do they confound the escape of the prisoner with the flight of the deserter; but they would seem to prefer the acquiescence of the "quisling" to the resistance of the patriot. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#fantasy #inspirational #resistance