Try a thing you haven’t done three times.
Once, to get over the fear of doing it.
Twice, to learn how to do it.
And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
May 102013
May 092013
The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.
– Dean Spade, in his essay For Lovers and Fighters
Attorney, educator and trans activist Dean Spade is author of Against Equality and Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law
May 082013
When jealousy rears up, it indicates that something inside of you is afraid. It’s an alarm, nothing less and nothing more. Treat it as such.
– Anthony D. Ravenscroft, Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless and Hopeful
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/539434-when-jealousy-rears-up-it-indicates-that-something-inside-of
May 072013
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
– Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/53327-it-s-never-too-late-to-have-a-happy-childhood
May 062013
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
– Ray Bradbury
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4959-you-don-t-have-to-burn-books-to-destroy-a-culture
May 052013
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
– Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/fear-cannot-be-without-hope-nor-hope-without-fear/407212.html
May 042013
I would not mind you in my head, if you were not so clearly mad.
– said by Lews Therin Telamon, in Robert Jordan’s The Path of Daggers