#no

When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future. ↗

— David Richo

#david-richo #inspiration #nonfiction #shambhala #inspirational

Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity. ↗

— Christian Audigier

#am #because #brands #build #celebrity

Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me. ↗

— Ree Drummond

#been #bore #i #knowing #me

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. ↗

— Janet Frame

#border #cathedrals #expedition #factories #going

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#free #know #million #out #sing

If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivion I craved. ↗

— J.D. Stroube

#crave #horror #inspiration #oblivion #paranormal

There is such a thing as crazy-mother bonding. . . . It happens when one realizes the other also has had a crazy mother, and it is both painful and pleasurable. There are more crazy mothers than you might think. ↗

— Minrose Gwin

#friendship #mental-illness #wishing-for-snow #friendship

If you do something wrong, do not keep looking back and feeling ashamed of it its what is happening now that matters ↗

— Rory Leech

#inspirational #memory #now #past #wrong

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#atheist #faith #god #religion #death

To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true. ↗

— John Ruskin

#inspiration #knowledge #light #sight #understanding