#ling

I will never fully understand why things happen the way they do on this planet. Too many people hold their tongue here. Too many people hide their true feelings. And at the end of the day, that does nothing but hurt someone. The men and women of Tamaran were always taught to live by their emotions, to trust that first reaction, as it is the most pure. Cyborg argues that you need time to make the proper decision. I argue that time blurs the true intent. To Earth standards, I may appear brash and rushed. I never hide what I think. Perhaps that is why Tamaran was a target for so many invasions. Our captors may have enjoyed seeing what pain they inflicted upon us, for our tears were never hidden either. ↗

— Geoff Johns

#emotional #emotions #feeling #feelings #men

...at the end of the day, homework will fade, teachers will retire, but a minute of acceptance can inspire. ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#inspirational

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, were being ashamed of what they were, lying about it, trying to be somebody else. Honesty was Fats' currency, his weapon and defense. It frightened people when you were honest; it shocked them. Other people, Fats had discovered, were mired in embarrasment and pretense, terrified that their truths might leak out, but Fats was attracted by rawness, by everything that was ugly but honest, by the dirty things about which the likes of his fatherfelt humiliated and disgusted. Fats thought a lot about messiahs and pariahs; about men labeled mad or criminal; noble misfits shunned by the sleepy masses. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#j-k-rowling #men

You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#friends #people #show #show people #willing

We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls... ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#story #storytelling #men

Will any of those men under you ever really understand all this? They're professional cynics, and it's too late for them. Why do you want to go back with them? So you can keep up with the Joneses? To buy a gyro just like the Smith has? To listen to music with your pocketbook instead of your glands? ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#feeling #music #understanding #men

Stories. Character. Dialouge. Entire worlds created on the page. Worlds that could sweep you away or frighten you, make you laugh or cry. Worlds that allowed you to escape to another country or time. Worlds built piece by piece of ink and punctuation. ↗

— Jamie Michaels

#on-writing #storytelling #inspirational

Look at your life as a patient and a doctor! ↗

— Tae Yun Kim

#energy-healing #inspirational-quotes #life-lessons #patient #inspirational

The greatest reward for a man's failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#inspirational #motivational #success #the-fortune-in-failing #inspirational

Do you know the opportunity you get when you fail? It is starting again - an opportunity to perform better. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#inspirational #motivational #opportunity #the-fortune-in-failing #inspirational