#eh

We are all powerless to heal ourselves. Research shows that self-help statements have been found to be ineffective and even harmful by making some people with low self-esteem feel even worse about themselves in the long term. As a matter of fact, positive self-statements frequently end up reinforcing and strengthening one’s original negative self-perception they were trying to change. ↗

— Justin S. Holcomb

#change

There is an uncharacteristic radicalism to Lewis’s further suggestion that if we can find “even one reader to whom the cheap little book with its double columns and the lurid daub on its cover had been a lifelong delight, who had read and reread it, who would notice, and object, if a single word were changed, then, however little we could see in it ourselves and however it was despised by our friends and colleagues, we should not dare to put it beyond the pale. ↗

— Laura Miller

#change

...as I already said, they didn't look like much--but beauty's in the eye of the beholder, isn't it? ↗

— Kate Morton

#beholder #eye #beauty

Enter the streets that you have never been to for the sake of the concealed beauties and the hidden truths! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#beauty

Refuse to seek for the road to paradise, because every beautiful place is already a paradise! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#beauty

I tried to map the cultural trends leading up to it but as I did they grew, interconnecting and weaving backwards and sideways out to everything. Next to the megalithic institutionalized shredding of people's humanity, marked by tombstone malls and scabby hills, the Styrofoam gullets and flag-waving god-chatterers casting their votes for eternal paternity on the lap rapists - next to all of that, the intimacy between a terrorist and his target was almost a beautiful thing but I still couldn't solve that moment when they did it anyway so I grabbed more paper and widened my field of vision. ↗

— Vanessa Veselka

#humanity #terror #beauty

The sun, sides bulging, squashed itself between two hills. It sent up a flare of golden light. The sky, patterned with a million tiny clouds like fish scales was illuminated. ↗

— Karen Foxlee

#beauty

We think there's a huge opportunity in smaller vehicles. Smaller vehicles done in an American way. ↗

— Freeman Thomas

#american way #done #huge #huge opportunity #opportunity

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#corruption #court-system #courts #ethical-behaviour #ethics

Have courage. We still have our clan. There is always hope. ↗

— Erin Hunter

#thunderclan #warriors #courage