#su

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still. ↗

— Criss Jami

#determination #first-impression #fool #foolish #genius

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent. ↗

— Susanna Kaysen

#survival #susanna-kaysen #talent #talent

It is not enough to receive support, no matter, how needed it may be. It is fundamental to know how to receive this support and ensure that its result is exponential. ↗

— Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

#ensure #exponential #fundamental #how #know

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#human-rights #politics #slavery #suffrage #knowledge

He needed the hand on his shoulder, the kiss to his temple and the hot, ragged breath of his Master over his face. ↗

— Casey K. Cox

#dominance #submission #bdsm

The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. ↗

— Natalie Babbitt

#summer #spring

If you do what we ask you to do, the victories will belong to you, and the losses to me. ↗

— Dean Smith

#submission #leadership

What was meaningful? What was meaningless? What did it mean, to amount to something? What type of life, was worth living? Was it better, to make a ton of money, and have a fucking goddamn Mercedes, or whatever the fuck kind of car it was, to be a lawyer with a ‘serious’ job, and to have ‘amounted to something,’ or was it better to just be a waiter, and work the evening shift, and have your days free to goof off with your roommates, your friends, to go to meditation, to take some time to reflect, and enjoy life, and to not always be in such a big goddamn rush to get somewhere? ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#financial-success #life-s-meaning #success #the-meaning-of-life #life

I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#food #goes #households #i #purists

At what point, 2,000 years on from the life of Jesus, do we need a refresher course? Another 2,000 years? Imagine 100,000 years’ time – would the story of Moses’ burning bush amaze a generation laden with unimaginable scientific and technological wonders? Here lies religion’s biggest quandary. While science is squeezing the life out of God, how is religion going to muster a counterattack from here? ↗

— Trevor Treharne

#atheist #christianity #god #jesus #religion