#rug

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged . One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. ↗

— John Rogers

#ayn-rand #jrr-tolkien #lord-of-the-rings #change

Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#drugs #law #marijuana #prohibition #change

One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything. ↗

— Beverly Donofrio

#life-lessons #strength-character #struggle #tragedy #triumph

People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination. ↗

— Paul David Tripp

#fallen #imaginations #people #struggling #change

You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire. ↗

— Leymah Gbowee

#power #struggle #women #change

We must learn from our struggles. ↗

— Roger Thurow

#inspirational #learn #struggles #change

No ordinary effort stops the wheel. In sleep it spins without resistance. Passively, falling deeper, lacking the will to activate any change. ↗

— Stephen Demone

#change #new #orange #project #struggle

Classifying depression as an illness serves the psychiatric community and pharmaceutical corporations well; it also soothes the frightened, guilty, indifferent, busy, sadistic, and unschooled. To understand depression as a call for life-changes is not profitable. Stagnation is not a medical term. The 17.5 million Americans diagnosed as suffering a major depression in 1997 were mostly damned. (Psychobiological examinations confuse cause and symptom.) Deficient serotonergic functioning, ventral prefrontal cerebral cortex, dis-inhibition of impulsive-aggressive behavior, blah blah blah: the medical lexicon boils emotion from human being. Go take a drug, the doctor says. Pain is a biochemical phenomenon. Erase all memory. ↗

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#biochemical-phenomenon #cause-and-symptom #disinhibition #doctors #drugs

No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better. ↗

— POB Bismark

#perseverance #startups #struggle #change

You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been called arrogant for your independent mind. You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity. You have been calle anti social for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#courage