“Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love? That Satan's way is more powerful, more practical, more fulfilling in my daily life than Jesus' way? WHy else get angry? Isn't it because I think complaining, exasperation, resentment will pound me up into the full life I really want? When I choose-and it is a choice-to crush joy with bitterness, am I not purposefully choosing to take the way of the Prince of Darkness? Choosing the angry way of Lucifer because I think it is more effective-more expedient-than giving thanks?” ThinkingWayWantGivingBelieveJoyChoicesJesusI BelieveMy OwnPowerfulDarknessAchieveAngryComplainingPracticalsThanksSatanCrushPoundsDaily LifeBitternessResentmentFulfillingLuciferFull LifeExasperation Author:Ann Voskamp
“And you know, I agree to everything: I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and sin lovely.” KnowsGivingLightSinForgetEnemyDarknessComfortAgreeLovely Author:Anna Akhmatova
“I've remembered that most of life is about small, essential connections, so unobtrusive, so elastic, that you scarcely realize they're actually holding you together. The big ones-the great, grand emotional bonds-those are the ones that break, the ones that fail you, the ones that give way and send you careening toward the foot of the bleak and jagged canyon. It's the tough, gnarled, unadorned ties that really do bind, that never let you fall all the way down into darkness.” WayGivingBigsTogetherLife IsFallRealizingBreakDarknessFailingFeetEmotionalEssentialsToughConnectionsRememberedTiesBleakCanyons Book:The Shape of Desire Source: The Shape of Desire
“I, however, like black. It is a color that makes me comfortable and the color with which I have the most experience. In the darkest darkness, all is black. In the deepest hole, all is black. In the terror of my Addicted mind, all is black. In the empty periods of my lost memory, all is black. I like black, goddammit, and I am going to give it its due.” GivingMindLostBlackMemoriesDarknessColorPeriodsComfortableEmptyTerrorDuesHoles Book:A Million Little Pieces Source: A Million Little Pieces
“Four wings, two hearts, but only one soul. They connect in the middle, but are separated by a thin line of ash. Its what brings them together, yet rips their feathers apart. They can never truly be together as light and dark. Unless one makes the ultimate sacrifice. Blows out their candle, and joins the other in the dark. Or if the other dares to fly across the line and steals the others light And force them to cross over the line and join the darkness of life. Im not gone, princess. I will come back for you until you give in.” IfsGivingHeartTwoSoulLightTogetherForceLinesDarkDarknessGoneFourSacrificeMiddleCrossesUltimateWingsBlowDareStealingCandlePrincessAshesFeathersRipLight And DarkTwo HeartsUltimate Sacrifice Author:Jessica Sorensen
“If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else But to the love of those who are clear joy, Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist – Do not go in the direction of darkness – I tell you: suns exist.” IfsGivingHeartRealJoyDarknessSunClearDespairSeekingKingdomsNeighborhood Author:Rumi
“At the very least i should fear you. some would say that I should hate you." "Many would say that." "Yet i neither fear nor hate you." "You-you are comforting me. Giving me sanctuary. Why, Grandma?" Aurox asked. "Because I believe in the power of love. I believe in chosing Light over Darkness-happiness over hatred-trust over skeptism.” GivingShouldBelieveLightHateI BelieveDarknessHatredI Believe InHate YouComfortingGrandmaSanctuaryPower Of Love Author:P. C. Cast
“Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness, and promote the delusion: wisely foreseeing that the people (like cows, which never give down their milk so well as when they are gently stroked), would part with less if they knew more.” PeopleIfsGivingWellsChristianDarknessIgnoranceDelusionPriestsMilkCowsBlindnessPreventingForeseeing Book:In Praise of Folly Source: In Praise of Folly
“There is no shame in loving. If your septons say there is, your seven gods must be demons. In the isles we know better. Our gods gave us legs to run with, noses to smell with, hands to touch and feel. What mad cruel god would give a man eyes and tell him he must forever keep them shut, and never look at all the beauty in the world? Only a monster god, a demon of the darkness.” IfsKnowsMenWorldGivingFeelsLooksHandsEyeRunningDarknessForeverShameMadSevenLegsSmellMonstersNosesDemonIsle Author:George R. R. Martin
“You will find ambiguity a great ally on your road to power. Give a sign of Slytherin on one day, and contradict it with a sign of Gryffindor the next; and the Slytherins will be enabled to believe what they wish, while the Gryffindors argue themselves into supporting you as well. So long as there is uncertainty, people can believe whatever seems to be to their own advantage. And so long as you appear strong, so long as you appear to be winning, their instincts will tell them that their advantage lies with you. Walk always in the shadow, and light and darkness both will follow.” PeopleGivingBelieveWellsLongLightSeemsLyingNextWinningStrongWishWalksDarknessOne DayShadowAdvantageInstinctArguingUncertaintyAlliesAmbiguityLight And DarknessGryffindor Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky