#ill

I hate traveling with amateurs. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#morganville-vampires #oliver #packing #rachel-caine #travel

Damn. That was stupid, wasn't it? We nearly got killed over ice cream. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#kiss-of-death #michael-glass #morganville-vampires #rachel-caine #death

Luthiel: I cannot change what will happen. I can only change how I act in the face of it. ↗

— Robert Fanney

#luthiel #resolve #willpower #change

TO WHOM LIFE IS AN EXPERIENCE TO BE CARRIED AS FAR AS POSSIBLE... I have not meant to express my thought but to help you clarify what you yourself think... You are not any more different from me than your right leg is from your left, but what joins us is THE SLEEP OF REASON—WHICH PRODUCES MONSTERS. —Theory of Religion ↗

— Georges Bataille

#monsters #reason #religion #sleep #experience

It's only when you learn, live and give sincere service that you can experience life's deepest fulfillment and true joy ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#fulfillment #joy #vision #experience

We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy. ↗

— Johannes Rau

#cents #creativity #economic #euros #gives

I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#forgiveness

Heroes do not dwell in a time of peace; heroes are hardened in a kiln against the sorrows. Their troubles sharpen the blade and make it gleaming. The glint becomes a brightness that is raised high on a hill, allowing women and men to see beyond themselves. For light swallows darkness. Truth buries death. Heroes are not born. They are filled by Music. ↗

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

#hill #love #sword #death

Blimey, Neville! There's a time and place for getting a smart mouth! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death

It is impossible to exercise free will as long as we are operating from within the system. Free will requires consciousness, and our pervasive and deep-seated patterns of thought are unconscious; they are outside of our awareness and therefore outside of our control. While we remain in the system, we see the world through the eyes of carnism. And as long as we look through eyes other than our own, we will be living in accordance to a truth that is not of our own choosing. We must step outside the system to find our lost empathy and make choices that reflect what we truly feel and believe, rather than what we've been taught to feel and believe. ↗

— Melanie Joy

#free-will #truth #love