#rin

Since the sheets were half-flown the sails instantly split at the seams, the maintopsail shaking so furiously that the masthead must have gone had not Mowett, the bosun, Bonden, Warley the captain of the maintop and three of his men gone aloft, laid out on the ice-coated yard and cut the sail away close to the reefs. Warley was on the lee yardarm when the footrope gave way under him and he fell, plunging far clear of the side and instantly vanishing in the terrible sea. ↗

— Patrick O'Brian

#aubreyad #master-and-commander #the-far-side-of-the-world #will-warley #men

The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings. The men who burned their fellow-men for a moment, believed that God would burn his enemies forever. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#heresy #punishment #religion #scripture #suffering

(Cyclops doesn't know if Logan is an imposter). Wolverine: Hey! It's me. Cyclops: Prove it! Wolverine: You're a dick. Cyclops: Okay ↗

— Bryan Singer

#wolverine #x-men #men

Remember your true self. You are more than just flesh and bones; you are unlimited energy and power. Knowing this, you will understand why happiness and prosperity are your birth right. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#law-of-attraction #manifestation #manifesting #mind-power #money

Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#alcoholism #drinking #heartbreak #insane #mental-illness

If we truly love ourselves, in spite of our flaws, then we can love others in spite of theirs. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#law-of-attraction #love #manifestation #manifesting #mind-power

When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor. ↗

— Basil the Great

#hoarding #money #poverty #sharing #money

Remember that in the end, the universe responds to our emotions, not to our words. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#law-of-attraction #manifestation #manifesting #mind-power #money

There are no absolutes, and your way is neither the only way nor the right way. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#law-of-attraction #manifestation #manifesting #mind-power #money

If you knew the power within yourself to be truly happy, to be truly whole, then you would never ask another to become the image you desire for yourself, in order to be happy and whole. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#law-of-attraction #manifestation #manifesting #mind-power #money