“You have to understand the dynamic of the abused household. What you think doesn’t matter. Your thoughts are passing. They are positions you adopt to survive.”
-John Darnielle

“If people can't control their own emotions, then they have to start trying to control other people's behavior.”

― Robin Skynner

"Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me. I want people to know 'why' I look this way.
I've traveled a long way, and some of the roads weren't paved."

-Will Rogers

"Those who promise you everything are lying... When we allow ourselves to be pandered to, our elected leaders seem more than happy to oblige us."

-John Green
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"I throw roses into the abyss and say: Here is my thanks to the monster who did not devour me."

-F. Nietzsche

"There's nothing that I'll do unless I have the possibility of being humiliated. If I can't be humiliated if I fail, I don't want to do it. Because only by doing that will I rise to my highest potential, with the fact that I may be humiliated. I don't want that to happen, but when it does happen, then I will truly be humiliated, because when I ( Read more... )

"inactivity breeds desperation in men"
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"This hamster maze may be huge and brightly coloured, but it's still just a sisyphusian mobius strip of tubes and sawdust."

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"I cannot remember the books I've read. any more than the meals I have eaten;. even so, they have made me."

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he would like to have.”

-Socrates