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It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for ourselves. It really is a good thing that he will not be satisfied until he has gotten us exactly where he created us and re-created us to be. Most of us would have been satisfied to stay at home, and many of us would have quit the journey long before it was completed. But our heavenly Father won't give up until each one of his children has completed the journey. ↗

— Paul David Tripp

#christian-living #inspirational #journey #trusting-god #home

গ্রহণ আর প্রাপ্তি বিশেষ সাহসের বিষয় নয়। সাহস তো প্রমাণিত হয় ত্যাগ ও বিসর্জনে। ↗

— মুহাম্মদ যাইনুল আবিদীন

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Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none. ↗

— Lois Lowry

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A battlefield; the canvas. The paint; blood. The brush; your sword. The painter; you. ↗

— Cleopatra Franco

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Be true to yourself and to the culture you were born into. Tell your story as only you can. ↗

— William Knowlton Zinsser

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I am a bomb but I mean you no harm. That I still am here to tell this, is a miracle: I was deployed on May 15, 1957, but I didn’t go off because a British nuclear engineer, a young father, developed qualms after seeing pictures of native children marveling at the mushrooms in the sky, and sabotaged me. I could see why during that short drop before I hit the atoll: the island looks like god’s knuckles in a bathtub, the ocean is beautifully translucent, corals glow underwater, a dead city of bones, allowing a glimpse into a white netherworld. I met the water and fell a few feet into a chromatic cemetery. The longer I lie here, listening to my still functioning electronic innards, the more afraid I grow of detonating after all this time. I don’t share your gods, but I pray I shall die a silent death. ↗

— Marcus Speh

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Each of us lives with a sword over his head. There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who cannot. Those who cannot are not necessarily better than those who can. But they are the creators of the special myth of their time, because any myth is the creation of the very few who cannot bear reality. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#activism-inspiration #american-history #ethics #myth #revolution

This is not what I wantef. This is not why I came to the Wilds, why Alex wanted me to come: not to turn my back and bury the people I care about, and build myself hard and careless on top of their bodies, as Raven does. This is what Zombies do. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

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I can not afford to solve your problem for you, but by the time you finish reading this you would have forgotten about it for 5 seconds. ↗

— Philip Amanor

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I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill. ↗

— Holly Lisle

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