3,557 notable quotes from the archive
“Abusers alternate cruelty with affection, creating powerful emotional highs and lows”
“people will change their behavior to survive this abuse but then they'll think that uh that it's like you know actually these survival mechanisms are actually they're not affection and so it's a Stockholm syndrome”
“Common bonding is a psychological response where victims form deep emotional attachments to their abusers through cycles of abuse and intermittent reinforcement mistaking a survival mechanism for affection.”
“That's how fear recruits an ally.”
“Don't make decisions inside the story someone else is telling you. Ask yourself, who benefits from this narrative?”
“The real power wasn't in the frog's muscles. It was in his ability to frame the entire situation. He chose the game. He set the rules. And he wrote the script.”
“Small creatures in this situation have two choices. freeze or learn to talk like kings. The frog chose kingship.”
“Three hot drops spilled onto Guan's thumb as he stirred, burning him. He instinctively put his thumb in his mouth and gained the wisdom and knowledge”
“Awen is very similar to the Autton I think which is like the rays coming out of the the sun in Egypt but I'll get to that later”
“The first three drops of liquid from his potion gave wisdom. The rest was a fatal poison.”
“10 winds in a temple. 10 notes in my bone. 10 ways to come back to the heart I disown.”
“I tremble. I'm golden. I'm ruined. I'm new. I am not afraid. I'm becoming true.”
“Not angels, not demons. No, they're the honest ones.”
“They didn't ask for my faith. They asked for my truth.”
“It talks about Jesus burning an excrement in hell.”
“There is no smoke alarm in the chat. Do you guys hear a smoke alarm?”
“I hear it in about 60 seconds cuz you can't you can't not not change it cuz it's going to happen.”
“Okay. Well, you're hallucinating.”
“I don't want to have a manage to talk with anybody unless it was like, you know, Christine Aguilera and Lil Kim and the rest of that whoever was singing that song”
“Worshiping Matangi is about embracing the totality of life, not just the pure and perfect parts. It is about finding divinity in the discarded, wisdom in the forbidden, and power in the margins.”
“She embraces what society discards.”
“This story is revolutionary in the context of traditional Hindu worship where purity is paramount. Offerings to gods are usually fresh, untouched, and prepared with strict rules. But for Matangi, the protocol is reversed.”
“In the vast and colorful tapestry of Hindu deities, there are gods of creation, preservation, and destruction. There are gods of wealth, wisdom, and war. But then there are those who defy all categories, who exist in the liminal spaces, challenging our very notions of purity and pollution.”
“he actually he he like did horoscopes. He would do horoscopes for people but just to make money kind of thing, you know, and I don't think he was like that great of an astrologer. He was he was okay astrologer.”
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