earning self-respect
on becoming the type of person you deeply respect
earning self-respect
Most “communities” these days revolve around one person who keeps giving and giving while everyone else takes. A real community is reciprocal, but what you see now is one-sided labor disguised as “leadership.”
most of the demons worth slaying, they're the children of Certainty and Convenience
River Kenna • Tweet
Hardship. Hard-'ship,' from the Old English word 'sciappan,' which means 'to shape' or 'to make.' Hard things shape us. Hard things make us
There’s even wisdom in the words themselves
"Each time we don't say what we want to say we're dying."
—Yoko Ono
—Yoko Ono
Amanda Fortini • Tweet
For the entirety of my young and skittish life, I had fixated upon my fear as if it were the most interesting thing about me, when actually it was the most mundane. In fact, my fear was probably the only 100 percent mundane thing about me. I had creativity within me that was original; I had a personality within me that was original; I had dreams an
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frightening how many of our wounds come from trying to be less than we are
-river kenna
If you relate to power as something to be opposed and fought, you have surrendered your own.