#power

If you could not have freedom you could still have vengeance. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#freedom

Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared with the reader. So that would mean that literature is stories that put themselves at the disposal of readers who want to heal themselves. Their healing power lies in their honesty, the freshness of their vision, the new and unexpected things they show, the increase in power and responsibility they give the reader. ↗

— Geoff Ryman

#freedom #freshness #healing #honesty #literature

True freedom and power only comes when one is free of attachments. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#freewill #power #freedom

All friendships are negotiations of power. ↗

— Holly Black

#power #friendship

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. ↗

— George Eliot

#music #power-of-music #life

No matter what happened yesterday it is insignificant when compared to what lies within the core of your being today. ↗

— Sandy Brewer

#growth #life #women #life

One thing I can guarantee, is that the world will never change itself because of our weaknesses. In fact, it has ways of actually becoming more dangerous when we approach it with a bad attitude. ↗

— J.Z. Colby

#educational #personal-power #science-fiction #young-adult #attitude

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#fate #fear #ignorance #life #order

What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered and our infancy remembered but in fragments. We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life. How vain is it to think that words can penetrate the mystery of our being. Rightly used they may make evident our ignorance of ourselves, and this is much. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#life

Everything you want in life is just one step away; all you have to do is decide in which direction to step. ↗

— Unknoown

#life #life