Miras

“your cowardice today is a poor guarantee for your heroism tomorrow”
― Sertillanges Antonin Gilbert -, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

“Thus he who looks away first is the more dominant. In my view, breaking eye contact can be high status so long as you don’t immediately glance back for a fraction of a second. If you ignore someone your status rises, if you feel impelled to look back then it falls. Thus dark glasses raise status because we can’t see the submission of the eyes.”
― Keith Johnstone, Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

“I get it now, I do. I don't know how to turn it off, but what I do know is this: I'm addicted to the worries, I'm addicted to self torture and self hate and any other version of the self that reaffirms the belief that there is a deep, disgusting darkness within me.”
― Emma Noyes, How to Hide in Plain Sight

“It's pointless being the richest person in the cemetery.”
― Stewart Stafford