“You have to realize there is nothing more you can do to convince someone you love to turn their life around. You simply have to say, "Look. I love you, but I cannot stand by and watch you kill yourself slowly. When you want help I'm here. Until then, goodbye." That may sound cruel, but self-preservation is paramount to helping someone else. If you're a wreck, you're useless to them, anyway. And if they refuse help, despite knowing the likely outcome, they will head down that path anyway.” IfsWantLooksMaySelfHelpingTurnsSoundCan DoRealizingWatchesKnowingPathLove YouRefuseDespiteUselessOutcomesGoodbyeConvincePreservationWrecksSelf PreservationParamountOne You LoveSomeone You LoveKilling YourselfHelping Someone Author:Ellen Hopkins
“Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.” WayKindCountryCan DoThreatTerrorismContraryTerroristReactionsDespiteOur CountryDamageFearfulRhetoricTranscendentTerrorist Attacks Book:Bruce Schneier on Trust Set Source: Bruce Schneier on Trust Set
“(God) gives the weak a weapon for self-defense that the strong, despite his military and nuclear arsenals, can do nothing against. There are clerics who condemn this and even say that these are suicide operations that are not allowed in Islam.” GivingSelfStrongCan DoMilitaryWeaponsWeakSuicideIslamDefenseNuclearDespiteOperationsSelf DefenseArsenal Author:Yusuf al-Qaradawi