#mental

I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved. ↗

— Joyce Johnson

#kerouac #love #rescue-mentality #sacrifice #love

I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself. ↗

— Rosamund Lupton

#betrayal #carelessness #guilt #mental-health #attitude

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. ↗

— Confucius

#motivational #perseverance #motivational

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#judgmental #motivation #motivational

The recognition that human beings are specifically and deliberately responsible for whatever aberrances farm animals may embody, that their discordances reflect our, not their, primary disruption of natural rhythms, and that we owe them more rather than less for having stripped them of their birthright and earthrights has not entered into the environmentalist discussions that I've encountered to date. ↗

— Karen Davis

#environmentalism #farm-animals #nature #dating

You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get there. Raspberry Jam ↗

— Angus Wilson

#free-will #hell #judgemental #religion #religion

It had been a long night already, and now here I was, locked in another fight to the death. Sometimes it just didn't pay to leave the house. ↗

— Jennifer Estep

#elemental-assassin #gin-blanco #death

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. ↗

— Abraham Harold Maslow

#instrumentalism #problem-solving #problems

My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#mind #mystery #rebellion #sherlock-holmes #stagnation

I don't believe in any kind of fundamentalism. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#believe #fundamentalism #i #kind