“An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.”
~Thomas Paine, 1795
“At such moments, courage is necessary,” Mr. Obama said. “We need courage to stand up to hate, not just in others, but in ourselves. At such moments, we need the courage to stand up to dogma, not just in others, but in ourselves.”
“Stop abortion at the source. Vasectomies are reversible. Make every young man have one. When he’s deemed financially and emotionally fit to be a father it will be reversed. What’s that? Did the idea of regulating a man’s body make you uncomfortable? Then mind your f**king business.”
~ @stephenszczerba via Twitter
“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
—CHARLES BAUDELAIREThe Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays (1863)
Every decision I make will either lead me towards comfort, or growth.”
—Vincent Van Patten
Refresh yourself, sister.
“A poem, a sentence causes us to see ourselves.”
“Magic is the use of spiritual skills to achieve specific goals, according to individual will.”
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Elisa's Spot 
Anxiety can be so paralyzing and keep us out of the flow of life, I think, or maybe just swirling in some cul de sac, looping around and around and around.
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I get a full stop oh moment when i look at it using the gap between concept, my need to control what comes next and when…no more stuck! just a laugh and an oh that’s easy. I can do this one next right thing at a time.
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