#one

To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther. Even somebody who admitted his guilt and resisted the temptation to deny it. Something politicians couldn't do. Honesty, the courage for honesty. With others and yourself. ↗

— Pascal Mercier

#courage #dignity #honesty #personality #self-awareness

She had discovered early that what we want out of life can change; that the important thing is to learn to recognize or even simply just to admit what we really want, and then to have the courage to reach for it. ↗

— Candice Proctor

#knowing-what-we-want-in-life #change

I'm a lion in a strange land. ↗

— Criss Jami

#awkwardness #beast #courage #different #earth

I can see clearly now, my brain is gone. Lucy ↗

— Cathy Hopkins

#funny #love #dating

The right one for you will move mountains to be with you - he won't hide behind them. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#holding-out-for-the-best #love #mr-right #not-settling #relationships

Love shouldn’t require Windex to be clear. It either is or it isn’t. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#clarity #dating #finding-the-one #he-s-just-not-that-into-you #holding-out-for-the-best

Don't let feeling lonely push you into the arms of a person who will make you miserable. ↗

— Stephan Labossiere

#companionship #dating #lonely #miserable #relationships

Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?” asked Scrimgeour. “No, I’m not,” retorted Hermione. “I’m hoping to do some good in the world! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#hermione-granger #law #ministry-of-magic #death

Yesterday I saved a baby, a boy, a man, and an old man from death, and all by simply not impregnating anybody. But I don't consider myself a hero. Merely heroic, and also unable to reach any of my lady friends on the phone. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#boy #death #funny #hero #heroic

There are times when you don't belong and you think you're going to kill yourself. Once I went to a hotel. Later that night I made a plan. The plan was I would leave my family when my second child was born. And that's what I did. I got up one morning, made breakfast, went to the bus stop, got on a bus. I'd left a note. I got a job in a library in Canada. It would be wonderful to say you regretted it. It would be easy. But what does it mean? What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. There it is. No-one's going to forgive me. It was death. I chose life." -Laura Brown- ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#hopelessness #life #loneliness #spirit #death