#shrink

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#face #i #i believe #i believe that #interdependence

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#approves #brave #business #conduct #conscience

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor. ↗

— Margaret Walker

#feels #gets #hates #heart #inside

I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit. ↗

— James Caan

#going #him #i #i quit #once

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#fear #inspires #less #love #offending

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#danger #defending #few #freedom #generations

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#born #child #does #enlightened #feel

I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often talked about other people in psychological terms, so I picked up a lot of that. ↗

— Toby Young

#analysis #been #father #freudian #had

Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#mirrors #reflections #seconds #shrinking #silence

A drink a day keeps the shrink away. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#day #drink #keeps #shrink