#nth

We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#book #boxing #boxing-champion #drama #family

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement. ↗

— George Eliot

#parenthood #family

Love, this is worse than junk food ; where you must eat it three times a day during four months to screw up your health. Love, it only takes a second to destroy you. ↗

— Yannick Heywang

#food #health #junk #love #month

From "Lunchtime At The Justice Cafe" : The waitress snarled a grin that lasted just long enough to show a mouthful of stained yellowed teeth, then turned suddenly serious. “‘Course I’m not the one to talk about these folks, I ‘spose. You see, I used to do a bit of eavesdroppin’ in my day before the sheriff put a stop to that.” 

She lifted the stringy blond hair from the side of her face, the opposite side from where she had hidden her pencil. There was a small hole about the size of a quarter where her ear should have been. “As you can see, Mr. McAllister, Sheriff Sweet puts a fairly high price on mindin’ your own business in Justice,” she added, refilling his cup. “You want some pie?” 


— Ken Goldman

#fried-food #goldman #horror #business

But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate. I wonder, for it is hard for me to conceive how men who knew the word "I," could give it up and not know what they lost. But such has been the story, for I have lived in the City of the damned, and I know what horror men permitted to be brought upon them. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#ayn-rand #freedom #individuality #freedom

No truth is more pervasive in Scripture and Christian tradition than this one—that real freedom is found in obedience and servanthood. And yet no truth is more incongruent with modern culture. Here we stand before a stark either-or: the gospel message of true freedom versus the culture's ideal of self-creation, autonomy, and living "my way. ↗

— Roger Olson

#servanthood #freedom

Alle äußeren Feinde und Widerstände ermangelnd, eingesperrt in unterdrückende Enge und Ordnung, hat der Mensch schließlich keine andere Wahl, als sich selbst zu einem Abenteuer zu machen. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#freedom #freedom

True freedom isn’t limited by partiality or favoritism for one over the other. It’s freedom for all or it isn’t freedom at all. ↗

— D.M. Anthony

#d-m-anthony #freedom

When a zashiki warashi came to live with you, good fortune smiled upon the whole house. ↗

— Holly Thompson

#japan #teens #friendship

One warm morning in July, a ghost came to our breakfast table. ↗

— Holly Thompson

#ghosts #japan #teens #friendship