Spanking and verbal abuse does not teach children discipline - it teaches them that they can use violence to solve problems. Next time you see a child being smacked or verbally abused, say something. Give that child an opportunity to know that what is being done to them is wrong. Show them empathy. That one moment of a stranger acknowledging what they’re going through will stick with them forever and could save their mind. It saved mine.
(via insideawritersheart)
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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall;
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King’s horses
And all the King’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again!
Government employees even suck at their jobs in fairy tales.
(via omgshellishelli)
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Research shows that verbal abuse activates and disrupts the same part of the brain that experiences physical trauma. A cutting tongue is no mere metaphor to the mind. Our hands may be free of blood, but for many of us, our tongues are not.
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- The man of faith climbed high yet fell
- The man of doubt climbed not at all
- Minds must expand to absorb
- Ideas must restrict to instruct
- To see all that can be seen
- We must be skeptics on our knees
- Faith is the student, Doubt is the teacher
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Physical beauty has a way of meaning everything in the beginning, yet nothing in the end. It is the content of a soul that’s truly worth remembering, never the form.
(via megscookies)
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- Creation requires solitude
- a space to break down
- a space to build up
- to give form, to give function
- to give life to an idea
- to give to strangers a gift
- normally reserved for a lover
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- Some of us use looks
- Some of us use wealth
- Some of us use status
- Some of us use words
- Some of us use art
- Some of us use force
- The female heart
- Is a sealed porcelain box
- Easier to break than to unlock
- What you find inside
- Depends on how you got it open
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To look forward on the edge of death would be to invite the imbalance that would send you over the precipice; instead look back to solid ground and find comfort in the familiar. Let your fear ground you by refusing to dwell on it—advance only when calm has built a bridge where you otherwise might have plummeted.
- Physics split the atom.
- Psychology split the mind.
- Philosophy split knowledge.
- Politics split society.
- Religion split our soul.
- Psychonauts explored chaos
- and found only patterns.
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It’s you that makes my nose bleed.
Your presence dries the air.
I wish you’d stop breathing.
If only to hear my thoughts.
In this case, your silence is blue.
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Writers… welcome to Write Club (aphorism writing challenge)
First rule of Write Club is that you do not write about Write Club.
For those of us not watching the Super Bowl and for those packing and smoking out of a super bowl, join the Write Club challenge.
Today’s (sunday feb. 5th) Write Club challenge is an aphorism contest.
The topic is the ever faithful green-eyed monster - unwarranted jealousy (projected jealousy) - that we sometimes inflict our partners with.
My favorite 140ish character aphorism wins.
I’ll first select my favorite top 10 and post the results. Then I’ll have the tumblr community poll the top 10 to get to the top 3. Which I will then choose from.
Winner gets their submission posted to a large fellowing with a paid Highlight and my eternal friendship.
Click Here To Submit (or at the link at the top of my page.)
And don’t forget to fellow your fellow writers.
Things I will be looking for is creativity of analogy or metaphor. Vividness of writing. Insight and intensity into the theme. And no piece of writing is any good without palpable honesty.
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