Take back your power! I wish you the wisdom to realize that the problem isn’t that they keep lying to you

Take back your power! I wish you the wisdom to realize that the problem isn't that they keep lying to you

You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.

You said to us once before," said Hermione quietly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we?

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering.

A man should eat slowly, properly, even if he eats alone.

Don't worry, it's very clear that the painting was done by a human, most likely a human with one eye removed and a feverent if incorrect understanding of design and anatomy.

If timing ain't everything, it's damn close

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.