quotes – Page 4 – There's a Mirror on the Wall

Don’t ever underestimate the power of your words. The power of a book. A library is not just a hall filled with paper and ink. It’s a fortress of light and darkness. It’s a weaponry of knights and angels. It’s a cave that offers protection during the storm. It’s the past, the present and the future and everything that could have been.

The Ágia Chronicles
Hadrian Hephaestus Nox (via l1na-k13)

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Marthe Troly-Curtin

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I’m going to tell you what a demon once told me: It is okay to want your own happiness. It’s okay to care about yourself the most. It’s okay to do what’s healthy for YOU. When someone hits you, it’s okay to hit back and then ask them what the hell they expected. It’s okay. You are not obligated to sit there and smile and swallow every bit of sh*t everyone heaps on you. You are more than furniture, you’re more than window dressing, you’re not their shiny toy. You’re human, and you have the right to say ‘That was sh*tty of you.’ You have a right to say ‘Let me feed that back to you; tell me, how does it taste?’ You have a right to protest your own mistreatment and set boundaries for respectful interactions. The rest of the world doesn’t realize you have this right, and they will act offended and appalled when you exercise it, but it is yours.

Sonneillon V. (via wnq-anonymous)

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

Josephine Hart (via quotemadness)

Socrates said, “The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.” He wasn’t talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies. Language used as an end in itself, to sing a poem or tell a story, goes right, goes towards the truth.
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.

Ursula K. Le Guinm (via jonnoxvxrevanche)

You have my whole heart. You always did.

Cormac McCarthy, The Road (via theliteraryjournals)

The topic here is devaluation. When it becomes commonplace to pair the word autism and tragedy, the pairing seeps deep down into the collective mind. When the puzzle piece becomes the recognized symbol for autism, the message comes over and over again that there is something unfinished about the person. Something mysterious that the general public cannot be expected to understand. Now when someone hears “autism,” tragedy echoes in the background. Puzzlement reverberates. This one is not like the others. This one is out of our range of understanding and compassion.

From Connecting Dots by Bev Harp in the book Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking (via 00queer)

William wondered why he always disliked people who said “no offense meant.” Maybe it was because they found it easier to say “no offense meant” than actually to refrain from giving offense.

Terry Pratchett, The Truth (via a-ramblinrose)

Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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