#si

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. ↗

— George Eliot

#pride #vanity #witty #life

Music is not a fucking soda. It is not a fucking insurance rate. It is not a fucking T-shirt. It is the only real religion that is worth devoting your soul to. It is the last remnant of the primal scream, the funeral dirge, and the wedding march. It is the light that keeps me out of the shadows, and it is the reason my immortal soul is not in dire straits. ↗

— Corey Taylor

#music #life

So I let my shame own me, kill me, wilt me away into a thousand dead flakes, knowing if I kept it all in, she would never have to learn the dirtiness that was forever inside me--the bad, the ugly, the twisted. She could go on living her life happy, just like she deserved. ↗

— Jessica Sorensen

#emotional-pain #guilt #rape #raped #shame

Human beings are a part of the animal kingdom, not apart from it. The separation of "us" and "them" creates a false picture and is responsible for much suffering. It is part of the in-group/out-group mentality that leads to human oppression of the weak by the strong as in ethic, religious, political, and social conflicts. ↗

— Marc Bekoff

#speciesism #suffering-life #vegan #life

If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be. ↗

— Lauren Myracle

#music #singing #songs #life

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough. ↗

— Aleksandar Hemon

#desire #life #life

Depression exist without you knowing it, even denying it. It is not an illusion. You don't even know you're in it. It takes awhile before you realize it. If you deny it, it means your still in there or else you won't talk about your misery and the dramas in your life. ↗

— Ann Marie Aguilar

#depression #life-lessons #life

You were born, and with you endless possibilities―very few ever to be realized.  It's okay.  Life was never about what you could do, but what you would do.  ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#birthday #drive #effort #hope #possibilities

You have to accept all sides of yourself – there’s no point fighting them – just learn how to handle them, and return to the positive, balanced being you know you can be, once the winds have blown through. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#balance #balance-of-light-and-dark #balanced-life #positive #life

At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to say, or play. It was hard-core, more than anything I had ever heard. After a few listenings I realized that, on some level, I had found the master, and that following this man's example would be my life's work. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#music #robert-johnson #life