#mon

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you. ↗

— Thomas Harris

#silence #testimony #abuse

The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we can exclaim like the wise man; righteousness exalteth a nation; for righteousness embraces knowledge and knowledge is power. ↗

— Joseph Smith Jr.

#inspiriational #knowledge #lds #mormon #religion

I didn’t ask. Some things are better left unsaid. He looked at me and I shivered. I never get enough of him. Never will. He lives. I breathe. I want. Him. Always. Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever. Later we would go to bed, and when he rose over me, dark and vast and eternal, I’d know joy. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#karen-marie-moning #shadowfever #rose

You know, when someone prefers their own brother over you, it isn't a confidence booster. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#confidence

...they needed someone to explain, to spin, the parts of the tale that couldn't be suppressed. Someone reputable and educated. Someone brilliant yet absolutely committed to the faith. Someone like my father. ↗

— Martha N. Beck

#controversial #faith #leaving #leaving-the-saints #mormonism

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters. ↗

— Stephen King

#king

Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#simon-lewis #talking

Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#fragments #intimate-notes #letters #marilyn-monroe #poems

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace. ↗

— Confucius

#simplicity #simplicity

I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#unity #community