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There is a fine line between compassion and a victim mentality. Compassion though is a healing force and comes from a place of kindness towards yourself. Playing the victim is a toxic waste of time that not only repels other people, but also robs the victim of ever knowing true happiness. ↗

— Bronnie Ware

#happiness #victim-mentality #life

Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't. ↗

— Dick Francis

#life #survival #life

I come in a world of iron...to make a world of gold ↗

— Dale Wasserman

#generosity #giving #goals #goals-in-life #heroism

The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion. Donald Gray expresses this: "Jesus reveals in an exceptionally human life what it is to live a divine life, a compassionate life. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#divinity #jesus #spiritual-life #life

One of the Secrets in Life is to Make Stepping Stones out of Stumbling Blocks. ↗

— Jack Penn

#life

We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them. ↗

— David Zindell

#life

Heart-to-heart journaling is a dialogue with God where both you and God are talking and you are recording it on paper. Heart-to-heart journaling is simply writing out your thoughts to God and what you sense to be His answer or response to you. ↗

— Linda Boone

#intimacy-with-god #real-love #soaking #life

How small life is here and how big nothingness. The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow. The two trees bow their heads to each other. Clouds cross the world’s silence in a circle dance ↗

— Robert Walser

#life #nothingness #robert-walser #silence #tired

Then what's the point of trying if you can't even win?" "You win in lots of different ways," Asher said. "Lots of little wins. The point of this life is not to be good all the time. It's to be as good as you can. No one is perfect. No one does it right all the time. That's not what life is. ↗

— Cate Tiernan

#immortal-beloved #never-give-up #life

Some people in your life Touch you so very deeply That you drown totally in that depth. ↗

— Amit Abraham

#deceiving #deception #emotional-pain #treasuresure #life