Beth Drain

“let's be honest: ignoring is acting, and nothing more - acting as though the words, or actions of your oppresors don't hurt. you hear the words, you feel the insults, and you bear the blows. you can act deaf and impervious to pain, but the stabs and the arrows pierce you anyway.”
― frank peretti

“Mankind without truth, without God-given morals...has strength...can think...can feel things emotionally–but if he isn't given a good, solid standard for right and wrong, then there's nothing to keep him from using strength and reason and feelings in selfish...even destructive ways...We wonder why people do such evil things, why there's so much violence in the world, why people rob and cheat and betray each other. But when we erase truth from our thinking and say there's no right or wrong except for what each person thinks is right or wrong, well, we get the world we deserve...when there's no truth that applies to everyone, then there's no way to argue for the rightness or wrongness of anything...”
― Frank Peretti, Nightmare Academy

“Would that my throat were blessed by the nightingale
That I could but sing of my heart’s great love
In some lonely tree flooded with silver,
Sing till I burst my breast with such passion,
Sing, then fall dead to lay at your feet.
~The Wish~”
― Judy Garland

“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
― Judy Garland