#rage

Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give courage and a heart, an angel with a white stone that has written on it our true and secret name, and it is so easy to dismiss it all that it is hardly worth bothering to do. ... But if the world of the fairy tale and our glimpses of it here and there are only a dream, they are one of the most haunting and powerful dreams that the world has ever dreamed... ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#courage #dream #fairy-tale #happily-ever-after #haunting

My dear boy, looking like a thing has little to do with being a thing. Be the thing first, and you will grow to resemble it. ↗

— Liam Perrin

#appearances #discouragement #dreams #longing #wisdom

Making a dream come true is like taking control of an airplane high up in the stratosphere and landing it safely on the ground – a measure of forethought, skill and courage is definitely required. ↗

— Silvia Hartmann

#creation #dreams #skill #courage

I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage through a hypothetical produce section, knocking over shelves and spattering fruit everywhere in sheer frustration, screaming, 'JUST TELL ME WHOSE SKULL TO CRACK WITH MY CLUB, DAMMIT! ↗

— Jim Butcher

#humor #rage #anger

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#courage #daughters #few #like #more

Universal suffrage is the only guarantee against despotism. ↗

— May Wright Sewall

#despotism #guarantee #only #suffrage #universal

That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life. ↗

— Henry Miller

#tragedy #equality

You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary. ↗

— Tasha Alexander

#horror #numbness #terror #tragedy #experience

We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#encourage #programs #use #yet

Why do people kill themselves? I think they do it when they can no longer find a reason to keep going. When nothing in heir lives is good enough to balance out the bad. And they do it when they no longer have the courage to carry on past some recent painful experience. They commit what is, in the end, a desperate, final call for help, that is hopefully heard in time by someone else. And what if it's not heard in time? I ask although I know the answer. Then they die. ↗

— Mary Beth Miller

#suicide #why #courage