#sit

His resonating stare fluttered through my memory, and I shivered. I hadn’t seen kindness in his pupils. I only saw intensity, and, I hated to admit it, but he was beyond intimidating. He was overwhelming. (Jessica) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#gaze #intensity #intimidating #love #overwhelming

You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#opposite #said #say #something #you

And I know, when things look the worst is when something new and wonderful is about to happen, if we can just hold on. ↗

— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

#positive-thinking #inspirational

And if it is a mystery, then we, too, had the right to preach mystery and to teach them that it is not the free choice of the heart that matters, and not love, but the mystery, which they must blindly obey, even setting aside their own conscience. And so we did. We corrected your deed and based it on miracle, mystery, and authority. And mankind rejoiced that they were once more led like sheep, and that at last such a terrible gift, which had brought them so much suffering, had been taken from their hearts. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#the-grand-inquisitor #love

In the past, I was a perpetual victim; how I was doing in any given moment depended on what happened to me. Today I do my best to avoid this kind of ‘victim thinking.’ Instead, how I am doing is determined by how I respond to what happens to me. ↗

— Jenni Schaefer

#recovery #love

Explore. Train your conscious mind and your subconscious mind to start working for you by getting those great powers to move in a new direction. Start creating your own good luck today. ↗

— Steve Backley

#inspirational #life-changing #mind-body-spirit #motivational #new-thought

Lucky people will focus on what’s in front of them rather than scrabbling about for what they’re searching for. ↗

— Steve Backley

#inspirational #life-changing #mind-body-spirit #motivational #new-thought

A man can't love you because you haven't read as many books as he has? He can't love you because you don't speak French or because you don't go to operas? You're telling me we have to fall in love with people who are just like us? ↗

— Billie Letts

#love #novalee-nation #opposites-attract #love

Oftentimes, especially during my recovery, I didn’t need to think about everything I was doing wrong; instead, I needed to focus more on what I was doing right—and then do more of the right stuff. I needed to live more in the solution. ↗

— Jenni Schaefer

#positive-thinking #recovery #love

I have a book of matches. I wrote it myself. The Spanish Inquisitors would love to burn it.
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— Jarod Kintz

#burning-books #funny #humor #matches #spanish-inquisitors