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“We hide our demons so good, that the angels we show, bare the shame on their faces.”
― Anthony Liccione

“When we're fully in our truth and we literally stand up and say: "Hey! Here I am!" Fully. More and more, what happens is people just come to you. Because when your soul is in your body, your soul tribe comes. And until you are fully you, it can't, because you're at the vibration of the people you're around.”
― Mishelle Bee

“If a man postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the assumptions on which all the conversation of his new friends [are] based... he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent. He will assume, at first only by his manner, but presently by his words, all sorts of cynical and sceptical attitudes which are not really his. But... they may become his. All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“We must each navigate a private expedition into the dense jungle of the mind. One must daringly respond to the call of autonomy in order to escape a caged in life of attachment, desolation, trepidation, and self-destruction. We can each locate a slice of heaven inside us.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Tous nous serions transformés si nous avions le courage d'être ce que nous sommes.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Alexis ou le Traité du vain combat / Le Coup de grâce

“However, one might ask why you decided to veer from your usual course and make every element so simple---relatively speaking."
Elijah had been anticipating some question like this. "You asked me to show myself on a plate. Sometimes things that appear simple are actually quite complex. And sometimes the most complex-seeming things truly have little substance. On occasion, the ingredients must speak for themselves," he replied, feeling for all the world like whatever happened later, he'd done himself proud.”
― Jennieke Cohen, My Fine Fellow

“... For Weber ... autonomy resides not in the formulation of universal laws but in the value-creating activity unconstrained by any criteria - except in Weber's case, by the criterion of self-consistency.”
― Rogers Brubaker

“Agathisim is the doctrine that all things tend towards ultimate good, as distinguished from optimism, which holds that all things are now for the best. An agathist accepts that evil and misfortune will ultimately happen, but that the eventual outcome leads towards the good. A setback never deters an agathist. We must not allow failure to act to arrest, diminished, or impoverish personal development and growth. We must be loyal to other people as well as be equally devoted to achieving our personal goals while adhering to our principles. If we betray ourselves at the bidding of other people, we forfeit everything that will ever matter.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We admire people who oppose the regime in totalitarian country and think they have courage or a "strong moral sense" or have remained "true to their principles" and the like. We may also smile at their naïveté, thinking, "Don't they realise that their words are of no use at all against this oppressive power? That they will hath to pay dearly for their protest?”
― Alice Miller, For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence