The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms read more

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

Limits exist only in the mind

Limits exist only in the mind

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that read more

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Love is when you shed a tear and still want him, it's when he ignores you and you still love read more

Love is when you shed a tear and still want him, it's when he ignores you and you still love him, it's when he loves another girl but you still smile and say I'm happy for you, when all you really do is cry.