#so

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#books #dejan-stojanovic #history #literature #literature-quotes

All things in Fiji are paid for in blood. ↗

— Lance Morcan

#adventure #fiji #historical-fiction #historical-romance #romance

The inner light actually comes from the soul; it is already inside us. The moment we can have free access to our soul, we will see that this light is coming to the fore to permeate our whole outer existence. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#soul #inner-peace

I don't think people realize, when they're just getting started on an eating disorder or even when they're in the grip of one, that it is not something that you just "get over." For the vast majority of eating-disordered people, it is something that will haunt you for the rest of your life. You may change your behavior, change your beliefs about yourself and your body, give up that particular way of coping in the world. You may learn, as I have, that you would rather be a human than a human's thin shell. You may get well. But you never forget. ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

#forget #change

Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning. ↗

— David Bornstein

#social-change #social-entrepreneurship #change

Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even be an illness at all. Often, it can be a normal reaction to abnormal situations. Poverty, unemployment, and the loss of loved ones can make people depressed, and these social and situational causes of depression cannot be changed by drugs. ↗

— Irving Kirsch

#depression #normal #social #change

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything you're holding back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake."- Richard ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#change

Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and has been swept away in the general upheaval and reorganization of the whole of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the bare, shivering human soul, stripped to the last shred, the naked force of the human psyche for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#soul #change

I've invaded the walls of the asylums with my ink pen. The way they look at mental illness won't be the same again ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#mental-illness

I would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with some semblance of equality, each liberal-minded woman, each gay person, and indeed almost every person could be their own President. In a world of equals, what real service does a ruler provide? ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#social-change #change