#ena

Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently. ↗

— Leonard Orr

#any #change #controls #efficiently #enables

We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities. ↗

— William Griffith Wilson

#alcoholism #carry #condition #contingent #cured

I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980. I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just an awesome experience for a teenager. ↗

— Kurtis Blow

#experience #france #germany #i #just

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#doubts #freak #frightened #further #had

Whose little boy are you? ↗

— James Baldwin

#black #church #coming-of-age #epiphany #god

We were the wrong age for love and yet it was all we could think about. ↗

— Brendan Cowell

#teenage-love #age

A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment. ↗

— Jessica Mitford

#reading #teenagers #age

Crotch biting menace:I have my mouth in close proximity to your genitals.Oh thou man who talks to my mistress over coffee.Do not irk or trifle with me! I possess but one tooth, oh, yes, for the rest were buried long ago in the flesh of sinners.Behold my jaws, upper and lower in righteous, symmetrical poverty.Move not, man of clocks, and heed my mistress, for she cherishes me, even in my foul old age. ↗

— Nick Harkaway

#quote #age

Hephaistion had known for many ages that if a god should offer him one gift in all his lifetime, he would choose this. Joy hit him like a lightning-bolt. ↗

— Mary Renault

#fire-from-heaven #mary-renault #age

BABARIC! ↗

— Robert Byrd

#barbaric #dog-fighting #old-people #robert-byrd #u-s-senate