#erm

Humans, unlike Jedi, are powerfully afraid of rejection. We do not survive well alone, so humans as a species are especially vulnerable to thoughts that make us afraid the rest of the “tribe” will desert us to die a sad, lonely death. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#empowerment #jedi #motivational #self-confidence #self-help

I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life. ↗

— Paula Deen

#approach #determined #diabetes #enjoying #i

People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#doing #need #others #people #rationalizations

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#anything #art #birth #communication #comparison

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#affliction #anger #bring #change #could

Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#also #being #dreams #innermost #into

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg! ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#beauty #dreams #ducks #empowerment #fairy-tales

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#could #daughter #evils #first #first time

If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#attorney #believe #care #deeply #defendant

In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#everyone #go #had #like #listen