The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.
Let the meek have the kingdom of heaven. The strong shall rule on earth.
Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.
I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel.
I have to go. I have a finite amount of life left and I don't want to spend it arguing with you.
No one's place in this world is guaranteed. Not everyone is going to get a happy ending. But life isn't about how it ends. It's about the moments between. It's about the small things. The way our loved ones laugh. The sight of a butterfly in the sunlight after a year or two in the darkness. The love and support of an old friend. They might not be with us in body, but they are with us in spirit. . . . Because every day, on this planet, people are born and people die and stranger things happen. (Armintrout, All Souls' Night, 367)
As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.
I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream. . . and life continues.
No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches, there is more than enough for all.
Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy.
Those who believe in this type of thing [Paul the Octopus, who ‘predicted’ the result of World Cup matches] cannot be the leaders of the global nations that aspire, like Iran, to human perfection, basing themselves in the love of all sacred values.