Carlos Castaneda
- Carlos Castaneda: Conquering The Four Enemies
The first enemy is Fear. If you run away from it, then accumulation of power stops. We defeat this enemy by not running away, taking one step at the time and next the other step to learn. After a long while, there comes a time when fear retreats, making us confident. Where you are now there is fear to do something in that exact direction you should go and little by little you will grow your personal power that makes you perform the ultimate action face the unknown...
2 Sentence Horror
- Guess where?
When the kidnapper made me guess where he kept my daughter, I went for the basement and he said. "Correct!" allowing me to see her, but, when I found her severed head in there, I learned that every other choice would have been correct as well.
Niccolo Machiavelli
We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things, whilst those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm defenders.
A fellow bored man
- Anon-Passion
You have something you like, right? Or is it something you started when you were younger and you've been rolling with it since then. If you have a ball rolling then keep it for as long as you want, but if you are too scared to try something that you like, then maybe that says something about how you feel about other people. Everyone is your friend right? How bad could it be if you sank hours into learning to draw from your 40 year old back-breaking dad that wants you to become a doctor?
A fellow bored man
- Anon-Are you happy?
Can you genuinely say you're happy? It seems like an easy answer but you'd be surprised how many people can't say for certain. One day you're happy, another you're not. It makes sense that you aren't constantly happy. But what about in general? Are you enjoying yourself right now? Typing? I'd say that if you wake up happy then that is enough.
A fellow bored man
- Anon- Bored is a Gift
If you are like me, in any way that I think you are, then you are doing this while having homework or something more important to do. I am here to remind you that to be bored is a gift and a luxury. In this entire world, millions of things to do. Hundreds of thousands of things to learn and be interested in, can you really tell me that you would rather be typing here? There is always something to do, so do it.
Tess Gunty
- Excerpt from The Rabbit Hutch
He likes to visit Middle America, likes to investigate and report back to the coasts. Their churches and their supermarket smiles. Their canned corn, which travels thousands of miles before returning to the land that produced it. Their American flags in the yards, their minivans and Christian schools. The roads, the unwalkability, their hard and friendly R's. Sweet gas station clerks. The faith and anger and geometry. Moses only understands contemporary politics when he's in the Midwest.
Marissa Meyer
- Renegades
There are many dangerous people in this world. But there are also many good people. Brave people. No matter how bad things get, we have to remember that. So long as there are heroes in this world, there's hope that tomorrow night might be better.
Earthbound
- Poo's Meditation Mu Training
Prince Poo! I am the spirit of your ancient lineage. To complete your trial, I am going to break your legs. I shall then take your arms and feed them to the crows. You do not mind my taking your hearing away? By floating words through the air I must ask you... do you care if I take your eyes? So Prince Poo! Now, I can only communicate directly with your mind. If you lose your mind, you also lose any feelings of sadness...
Taylor Swift
- The great war
My knuckles were bruised like violets. Sucker punching walls, cursed you as I sleep talked. Spineless in my tomb of silence. Tore your banners down, took the battle underground. And maybe it was ego-swinging, maybe it was her. Flashes of the battle come back to me in a blur. All that blood-shed crimson clover, uh huh. Sweet dream was over. My hand was the one you reached for all throughout the great war.
Alice in Wonderland
- Mad Hatter
"But a dream is not reality," Who's to say which is which. If you searched this up, I know you shift realities. I shift realities, too, and that's where I got this from. You will shift if you haven't already, and if you have, then you'll shift again.
ENHYPEN
- Intro: The Invitation
Purchasing pleasures, in selling hours of dross. Here in the land of rebel powers, gloriously decorated. An invitation calls to us. From the carnival of the dazzling night. So we beat on the door of this flipped world, brought here by fate. Whether the harvest feast of light, or a festival of blood. Time harmonizes laughs and screams. Death once dead, there's no dying then. So we gladly swallow time like it's our last breath.
Jack Villalobos
- Criticism
There's a random quote here that criticism is dangerous. That it should be avoided altogether because it causes conflict and damages a person's ego or confidence. I disagree with this because criticisms make a person grow. IF the person refuses to listen to a well-constructed criticism, then it's his loss. At least you tried to be frank.
Emily F
- Barney Tells Robin he loves her - HIMYM
I love her, Nick. I love everything about her, and I am not a guy who says that lightly. I am a guy who has faked love his entire life. I thought love was just something idiots thought they felt. But this woman has a hold on my heart I could not break even if I wanted to and there have been times I wanted to. It has been overwhelming and humbling and even painful at times but, I could not stop loving her any more than I could stop breathing. I am hopelessly irretrievably in love with her.
Jon R.
- Focus
I can't focus, I have too much to do and I don't know where to start. What do you do when you feel overwhelmed? Me? I procrastinate until I am forced to do what must be done. If you're typing this quote I have a request: Leave your own quote about how you handle stress, I could use the tips.
Sarah J. Maas
- Heir of Fire - Rowan Galathynius
You collect scars because you want proof that you are paying for whatever sins you've committed. And I know this because I've been doing the same damn thing for two hundred years. Tell me, do you think you will go to some blessed Afterworld, or do you expect a burning hell? You're hoping for hell - because how could you face them in the Afterworld? Better to suffer, to be damned for eternity.
Thucydides (Translated by Richard Crawley)
- Funeral Oration of Pericles
For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart. These take as your model and, judging happiness to be the fruit of freedom and freedom of valour, never decline the dangers of war.
Resident Evil Village
- Cult of the Black God Prayer
Great ones, hear our voice, together as one in reverence. We call on thee within the endless dark to deliver us into fate's hands. As the midnight moon rises on black wings, so we make our sacrifice and await the light at the end. In life and in death, we give glory, Mother Miranda.
Schell games
- I expect you to die 2 Opening
From the spotlight I can see you Play your cards right Kill your stage fright This could be you If the whole worlds a stage Let's set it on fire You be the spy And I'll be the liar From the background You can hear me Highest billing Makes a killing They revear me That beautiful mask you wear Is all I desire So you be the spy And I'll be the liar Face to Face to Face again And through the camera lens we ascend You're a minor part I'm the major star Ha!
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Arrest! -The Gulag Archipelago
Arrest! Need it be said that it is a breaking point in your life, a bolt of lightning which has scored a direct hit on you? That it is an unassimilable spiritual earthquake not every person can cope with, as a result of which people often slip into insanity?
