we have to be absolutely relentless about ourselves. no despair. no giving up. even if you’re slow, even if it’s scary. even if everyone else disagrees. only you need to understand. you know best where to give yourself slack and where not to. & you can’t lie to yourself
Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney#Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE
Sadly u can’t confront anyone about anything in any way and have it lead to a productive outcome anymore. It doesn’t matter how civil and polite u go about it. People can’t handle being challenged irl anymore. They recoil and implode. An angry email has a better chance.
“The anaesthetizing influence of habit having ceased, I would begin to have thoughts, and feelings, and they are such sad things.”
— Proust, Swann’s Way (tr. Lydia Davis)
“We need to create sober, patient people, who do not despair in the face of the worst horror and who do not get excited about every little thing. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”
— Antonio Gramsci
"Liberty, Sancho, is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives."
Cervantes
Don Quixote
punch makes me cry because he reminds me of harry harlow’s attachment experiments on infant monkeys. i want my soft mom, even if she doesn’t have milk. i want my soft mom, even if she cannot hug me back
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