#power

I had cooperated. I could not have refused. I was smitten with her, half in love but also afraid, because in my life (and she seemed to know this) I had not loved anyone without having been wounded. Love was power and possession, love caused pain: you were never more exposed than when you were in love, never more wounded; possession was an enslavement, something stifling. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#love #possession #power #life

I thought the love I'd had for him belonged to the past, to the foolish, lonely girl I never wanted to be again. I'd tried to bury that girl and the love she'd felt, just as I'd tried to bury my power. But I wouldn't make that mistake again. ↗

— Leigh Bardugo

#lonely #love #power #love

Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#hate-to-love #power-of-love #love

There and then, sitting beside her and within the strength of my adoration, I felt invincible. ↗

— Hisham Matar

#power-of-love #love

The Black Woman is amazingly strong, truly powerful, deeply visionary, has incredible worth and much love and goodness within that she is willing to share. She is to be honoured, yet must begin first to see and honour all of this (and much more) within and about herself. Let us see this more in who we truly are and live, when we do, we will attract more of the greatness that we absolutely deserve." Rebecca Gordon. ↗

— Rebecca Gordon

#honour #powerful-women #self-love #self-worth #value

Don't make fun of people who are different. Unless they have more money and influence. Then you must ↗

— Tim Dorsey

#money

You know how the Eclipse of the sun shows it? Christ's strength eclipses your powerlessness in God's likeness, and there is total darkness on your weakness. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#christ #cross-of-calvary #dark #darkness #eclipse

I know essentially you're some kind of enchantress. Maybe you're still serving your apprenticeship, but you're an enchantress all right. Probably I'd get used to you in time. Right now, it's only my demonic will that's keeping me playing it mighty cool. ↗

— Margaret Way

#enchantress #magic #will-power #love

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#destructive #government #happiness #new #power

Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe. ↗

— John Christopher

#men