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.

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.

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.

Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of read more

Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

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.

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.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.