#dice

She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet. ↗

— Jane Austen

#mr-darcy #pride-and-prejudice #pride

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#ignorance #inexperience #mercedes-lackey #prejudice #enlightenment

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame. ↗

— José Rizal

#cowardice

I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn. ↗

— Anne Frank

#cowardice

Idiot. Which road do you take when you're running from something weaker than yourself? Or maybe you're the one looking for an excuse to back out. ↗

— Watsuki Nobuhiro

#excuses #manga #rurouni-kenshin #cowardice

It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#evil #cowardice

Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear? ↗

— Markus Zusak

#cowardice

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. --"Wanda ↗

— Ouida

#god #prayer #self-help #cowardice

Survival feels like cowardice. ↗

— Ann Aguirre

#survival #cowardice

Fight or flight? If I had wings, there’d be no choice. But since I don’t have wings, I have to rely on my cape, and a long running start.  ↗