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Maybe I was in love, but I was still me, after all. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#richelle-mead #sydney-sage #the-indigo-spell #love

How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it. ↗

— Charles Eisenstein

#life #paradise #sacred-economics #social-change #social-vision

So, as a seventh grader,no, you weren't friends with people you didnt like. But sometimesyou also werent friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didnt make any sence if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. Thats where the sadness came in. ↗

— Lauren Myracle

#complicated #friends #like #sadness #seventh-grade

When you touch someone that you love, the whole world changes. ↗

— Sakura Tsukuba

#land-of-the-blindfolded #change

When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves. ↗

— Yiyun Li

#dead #death #deception #falsehoods #lies

The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#death #james-bond #death

What I have learned from about twenty years of serious reading is this: It is sentences that change my life, not books. What changes my life is some new glimpse of truth, some powerful challenge, some resolution to a long-standing dilemma, and these usually come concentrated in a sentence or two. I do not remember 99% of what I read, but if the 1% of each book or article I do remember is a life-changing insight, then I don't begrudge the 99%. From "Quantitative Hopelessness and the Immeasurable Moment ↗

— John Piper

#sermon #change

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#briefing #entertainment #expansion #information #inspiration

What mattered was stil there. That was what they all felt, and what surprised them all. What mattered couldnt be shaken. ↗

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

#meaningful #sad #inspirational

And if you lose the willingness, what do you have? ↗

— Sabrina Benulis

#archon #demons #love #sci-fi #urban-fantasy