*through gritted teeth* every day i choose to be kind *barely restraining myself from violence* i choose to have compassion *tamping down the vicious bloodlust inside me* i choose to care and to be kind and to love
βHe is a most implacable, determined, tenacious, intolerant person who by mere force of character presents himself asβand indeed actually isβconsiderate, gentle, explanatory, even mild and apologetic, capable possibly of murder, but not of cruelty or coarseness.β
-- George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara






















