#substance

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on. ↗

— Criss Jami

#forgiveness #grudge #grudges #holding-grudges #moving-on

Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per cent began working before they turned 16. (Prostitution is their only perceived means of survival.) Millions of children work as prostitutes around the world. A third are male. One study revealed that over 50 per cent of prostitutes are the children of alcoholics or substance abusers, and 90 per cent are deflowered through incest or rape. Ninety-one per cent of prostitutes do not speak of the abuse. (The truth of life is told through the language of behavior.) Abused children suffer Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, guilt, self-destructive impulses, suspicion, fear. Seventy-five per cent of prostitutes attempt suicide. (Imagine their scrapbook of memories.) ↗

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#children-of-alcoholics #fear #guilt #incest #juvenile-prostitutes

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#character #simile #substance #character

I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left. ↗

— Julian Clary

#act #away #being #gay #i

The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances. ↗

— Paul Harris

#been #consequence #frontier #indiscriminate #lawlessness

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#existing #freedom #heart #limited #matter

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. ↗

— Carl Jung

#both #chemical #contact #like #meeting

There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#any #content #devoid #i #i am

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#consumes #create #decision #decision making #decisions

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#about #biological #come #computer #computers