#power

There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#power-of-words #work

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will. ↗

— Stephen King

#positive-thinking #self-empowerment #writing #think

Don't wish...DO! Don't try...BE! Don't think...KNOW! And above all: Bless a stranger with a small, yet powerful, random act of kindness. You feel me? ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#blessings #dream #kindness #knowledge #powerful

Leave your excuses and live your dreams! ↗

— Paul F. Davis

#insightful #inspirational #motivational #dreams

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again. ↗

— Malcolm X

#police-brutality #power #resistance #solidarity #violence

The disempowered mind believes dreams come true; the empowered mind knows you bring your dreams to life. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#dream #empowerment #happiness #life #success

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power. ↗

— Clive James

#ideology #politics #power #ideology

Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#poor

Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#civilization

A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#short-story