#pow

When you encounter obstacles, don’t turn your back on them. Face them, confront them and your will see them dissolving in front of your eyes. ↗

— Roopleen

#aim #ambition #attitude #celebrate #challenges

Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#almighty #god #likelihood #might #omnipotence

Men with power had the responsibility to know what was best, and they so rarely did. ↗

— Beck Sherman

#politics #power #responisibility #men

A real man can use power, rather than let power use him ↗

— Moffat Machingura

#control #influence #man #men #power

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. ↗

— Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

#power-of-music #music

The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#power #nature

I could see her will leaving and death seeping through her skin to skewer her soul. ↗

— J.D. Stroube

#paranormal #skewer #soul #will #willpower

Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#power #experience

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#against #appeals #conduct #deaf #destructive

And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#life