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The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways–and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection. ↗


— Paulo Coelho


#behavior #change #conversation #day #fear

Verbalize someone's actions back to them. Menace them with language, the language mirror. Death by feedback. ↗


— Ben Marcus


#death

Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based upon fear and hope, such morality has always been a vile product, imbued partly with self-righteousness, partly with hypocrisy. As to truth, justice, and fidelity, who have been their brave exponents and daring proclaimers? Nearly always the godless ones: the Atheists; they lived, fought, and died for them. They knew that justice, truth, and fidelity are not conditioned in heaven, but that they are related to and interwoven with the tremendous changes going on in the social and material life of the human race; not fixed and eternal, but fluctuating, even as life itself. ↗


— Emma Goldman


#atheism #bravery #secular #change

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. ↗


— Albert Einstein


#uncertainty #law

We are not perfect. We are here to learn. Earth is one big classroom and God is our heavenly guidance counselor and teacher. ↗


— Molly Friedenfeld


#counselor #earth #god #happiness #heaven

Frenzy destroys our inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful. ↗


— Thomas Merton


#inspirational #inspirational

So, been attacked by any vampires yet?" "Not one." "Zombies? Giant spiders? Water monsters?" It's been really quiet on the supernatural front" "Too bad, 'cause I got attacked by a devil dog. It was not awesome. ↗


— Rachel Caine


#dogs #fall-of-night #giant-spider #supernatural #vampires

Language is a virus from outer space ↗


— William S. Burroughs


#language

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all. ↗


— Patricia A. McKillip


#language #meaning #words #language

Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. ↗


— Jeffrey Eugenides


#language #patriarchy #language






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