#tell

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are! ↗

— John Lennon

#need #tell #who #you

At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#argumentation #avoidance #challenge #challenger #contempt

Emotions are like muscles. Most of them go highly unattended, it's usually the weaker, undefined ones that cause injury to the rest, and there is most certainly memory response in play. ↗

— Erica Goros

#emotions #humor-inspirational #inspiration #intellect #self-help

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#present #story #storytelling #change

Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#story #storytellers #freedom

Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear. ↗

— St. Catherine of Siena

#fear #freedom-of-speech #truth #truth-telling #freedom

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#insanity #intellectual #self-help #freedom

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#any #brain #falls #habits #his

Cats are cats . . . the world over! These intelligent, peace-loving, four-footed friends- who are without prejudice, without hate, without greed- may someday teach us something. -James Mackintosh Qwilleran ↗

— Lilian Jackson Braun

#intelligence

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#elsewhere #exists #i #i think #intelligent