#on

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#education

Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads. And there are millions of teens who read because they are sad and lonely and enraged. They read because they live in an often-terrible world. They read because they believe despite the callow protestations of certain adults that books-especially the dark and dangerous ones-will save them. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#salvation #teens #education

I've changed, you've changed We've become something more than what was hoped for or foreseen ↗

— Tiffany Fulton

#contemporary-poetry #change

For the first time in my life, I was in a shoot-out. A real, honest-to-goodness shoot-out with a bad guy. And, apparently, we both sucked. ↗

— Darynda Jones

#darynda-jones #funny #shoot-out #funny

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas. ↗

— Edward Bond

#comes #containing #democracy #genes #ideas

You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excites you and what scares you everyday, not by trying to find your passion. ↗

— Derek Sivers

#find #goal #goals #life #lost

I hoped she understood that I was hers, completely and undeniably, forever. That if I had all of this to do all over again, I would change everything. And that in any life, in any situation, I’d choose her. Every time. ↗

— Molly McAdams

#sadness-love #change

THIS is the story of an orgasm. Or it could be said this is the story of an orgasm that never was, and then was, and once it was, it's the story of all the ripples it set in motion. It's the reiteration of the total fecundity slam dance, Big Bang Explosion that created the world. ↗

— Sharon Weil

#donny-and-ursula #donny-and-ursula-save-the-world #fecundity #orgasm #ripples

The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#mormont #love

If we do not push ourselves enough, we do not grow, but if we push ourselves too much, we regress. What is enough will change, depending on where we are and what we are doing. In that sense, the present moment is always some kind of beginning. ↗

— Sakyong Mipham

#personal-growth #change