#cia

Often, vegan advocates assume that a person's defensiveness is the result of selfishness or apathy, when in fact it is much more likely the result of systematic and intensive social conditioning. ↗

— Melanie Joy

#animal-advocates #animals #apathy #defensiveness #social-condition

All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles. ↗

— Patricia A. McKillip

#harpist #morgon #patricia-mckillip #riddle-master #love

I was inclined to leave love unspoken. ↗

— Rachel Hartman

#seraphina #love

Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world. ↗

— Louise Brown

#looking #own #remember #special #unique

That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense. ↗

— Jonathan Harris

#ever #first #first time #got #guest

There is a great superficiality in today's evangelical world. Many Bible-believing Christians share the contemporary case for self-gratification, emotionalism, and anti-intellectualism. Many people who believe in the Bible have never read it. ↗

— Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#superficiality #love

Just once, I would like there to be something special about being the kid stuck in the middle. ↗

— Karen Tayleur

#middle #middle-child #special #love

I think you're really nice" "I'm nothing special." it's not a lament. More a statement. ↗

— Elise Valmorbida

#love

The more ardently I see humanity as a glorious abstract that must conform to my ideal of how the world should be, the harder it is for me to love the person on the other side of the picket line who is holding up progress. I can love the downtrodden in the abstract, but as I shivered under the bridge that night with Jorge, I realized that it's harder to love the illegal immigrant with the bottle-slashed face and the body unwashed for weeks, the workers gathering to eat day-old bread and chicken and rice out of foam containers, the crowd of thousands clamoring for bread and fish and healing, the unclean woman hoping to touch the hem of the Savior's robe. ↗

— Alisa Harris

#politics #social-justice #faith

The deceptive, glossy media images of faces, bodies and social lifestyles, make us hate ourselves so we will buy a solution to love ourselves once again. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#self-acceptance #social-psychology #love