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#1

“If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill.”
― Rumi

tags: denial, depression, healing, pain, recovery, sadness, suffering

776 likes

#2

“stars are the scars of the universe”
― Ricky Maye, Barefoot Christianity

tags: abuse, recovery, scars, self-harm, self-help, stars, twloha

174 likes

#3

“You must be able to swallow bitter pills without becoming bitter.”
― Jonathan Heimberg

tags: anger, bitter, bitterness, forgiveness, recovery

1 likes

#4

“Looking stupid is part of learning, let it happen.”
― Douglas H. Ruben, The Human War: Ptsd Recovery Guide for Returning Soldiers

tags: douglas-ruben, learning, overcoming-ptsd, recovery, the-human-war

1 likes

#5

“That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

tags: charity, compassion, generosity

613 likes

#6

“Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: charity, compassion, giving, inspirational, love, self

55 likes

#7

“Cats are like potato chips. You can't have just one.”
― Anonymous

tags: cat-quotes, cats, funny-quotes, humorous-quotes

2 likes

#8

“I would prefer not to.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

491 likes

#9

“Be quick to resolve conflicts before they mature to become wars. The energetic crocodile was once a delicate egg!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

tags: argue, argument, battle, be-quick, conflict-resolution, conflicts, crocodile, delicate, egg, energetic, energy, fight, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, little, little-things, make-peace, mature, peace, peaceful, peacefully, quarrel, resolution, resolve, settle-conflicts, small-things, tiny, war

10 likes

#10

“Parents give you life. Only you can give it meaning.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

tags: life-quotations, life-quotes-and-sayings, meaning, meaning-of-life, meaningful-life, purpose, purpose-driven, purpose-driven-life, purposeful-life

3 likes

#11

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
― Mark Twain

tags: bravery, character, courage, moral-courage

1199 likes

#12

“Learn to enjoy this tidying process. I don't like to write; I like to have written. But I love to rewrite. I especially like to cut: to press the DELETE key and see an unnecessary word or phrase or sentence vanish into the electricity. I like to replace a humdrum word with one that has more precision or color. I like to strengthen the transition between one sentence and another. I like to rephrase a drab sentence to give it a more pleasing rhythm or a more graceful musical line. With every small refinement I feel that I'm coming nearer to where I would like to arrive, and when I finally get there I know it was the rewriting, not the writing, that wont the game.”
― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

tags: edit, editing, editor, on-writing, on-writing-well, the-editing-process, the-writing-process, write, writer, writing, written, wrote

11 likes

#13

“Reversive blockade: Emphatically insisting upon something which is the opposite of the truth blocks the average person’s mind from perceiving the truth. In accordance with the dictates of healthy common sense, he starts searching for meaning in the “golden mean” between the truth and its opposite, winding up with some satisfactory counterfeit. People who think like this do not realize that this effect is precisely the intent of the person who subjects them to this method. If the counterfeit of the truth is the opposite of a moral truth, at the same time, it simultaneously represents an extreme paramoralism, and bears its peculiar suggestiveness.

We rarely see this method being used by normal people; even if raised by the people who abused it; they usually only indicate its results in their characteristic difficulties in apprehending reality properly. Use of this method can be included within the above-mentioned special psychological knowledge developed by psychopaths concerning the weaknesses of human nature and the art of leading others into error. Where they are in rule, this method is used with virtuosity, and to an extent conterminous with their power.”
― Andrew M. Lobaczewski, Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes

tags: communism, denial, ideology, mass-formation, morality, narcissism, psychology, psychopath, totalitarianism, truth

3 likes

#14

“Civilians always believe a good psychopath.”
― Dave Cullen, Columbine

tags: psychopath

7 likes

#15

“There is a point where courage becomes a symptom of mental illness.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

tags: bravery, courage, courage-quotes, fearless, mental-health, mental-illness, psychopath, recklessness, risk-taking

2 likes

#16

“It's hard to recognize the devil when his hand is on your shoulder.
That's because a psychopath is just a person before he becomes a headline.”
― Becky Masterman, Fear the Darkness

tags: humanity, people, psychopath, truth

4 likes

#17

“It takes many sheep to satisfy one wolf.”
― Nenia Campbell, Horrorscape

tags: creepy, dark, evolution, gavin, gm, horror, psychopath, sociopath

69 likes

#18

“I’m in this plot because you took my lot.”
― Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm

tags: destruction, drama, exciting, fast-paced, gripping, intense, legal, legal-thriller, suspense

32 likes

#19

“Sometimes, the only way to make your dreams come true is to shatter them.”
― Pepper Winters, Twisted Together

tags: abuse, adult, bdsm, dark, erotica, romance, suspense

24 likes

#20

“The truth remains quiet inside us,floundering like a battered bird,desperately wanting to spread its
wings and fly away.
-TARA”
― Amita Trasi, The Color of our Sky

tags: suspense, women-s-fiction

9 likes

#21

“When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.”
― Charles Baxter, Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction

tags: destiny, discovery, fiction, mystery, overdetermination, perfection, plot, writing

296 likes

#22

“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: creative, life, mystery, writing

258 likes

#23

“In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: tolerance

238 likes

#24

“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
― William Faulkner

tags: revision, writing

1120 likes

#25

“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

tags: truth, writing

1135 likes

#26

“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: dark, humour, joke, perspective, stories, writing

889 likes

#27

“Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.”
― Jennifer Weiner

tags: book-lovers, reading, writing

770 likes

#28

“A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Twenty-Four Conversations with Borges: Interviews by Roberto Alifano 1981-1983

tags: art, purpose, raw-materia, writing

805 likes