#ness

My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#illness #cancer

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes. ↗

— Jean Vanier

#success #weakness #growth

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#misattributed #darkness

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. ↗

— Anne Frank

#darkness #illumination #dark

Dream your dream; and realize that you are more than just the dreamer, you are the point of origin for its reality. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#goals #happiness #inspiration #life #motivation

To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#contrariness #ebooks #humanity #internet #reading

What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#loneliness #escape

Hi, Princess. Sorry I'm late. Traffic was a bitch." He winked at me, then shot a glance at the winter sidhe, standing in the doorway. "Hey, Shard." He waved. "Nice place you've got here. I'll have to remember it, so I can give it the special 'Puck touch'." -PUCK ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#illness

Say the word. Say the word and I won't go. Say the word, Qhuinn. Do it and I'll spend the night with you. Better yet, why don't you just kiss me- ↗

— J.R. Ward

#qhuinn #illness

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. ↗

— Aristotle

#genius #great-minds #madness #mind