#ali

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits ↗

— Peter Jennings

#journalist

I realize that I am not a journalist. So anything I say is not important. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#journalist

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go. ↗

— Vikram Seth

#loss #love #equality

I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen. ↗

— Holly Black

#equality

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#love #pain #philosophical #equality

She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself. ↗

— Iain Pears

#individuality #search #self-awareness #self-reliance #dreams

Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current will knock you off your feet and carry you away. The way to do it is small steps, you will take hold of life. You will get there in the end. ↗

— Louis Sachar

#inspirational #perseverance #dreams

A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#plays #stoppard #dreams

I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to love what others love. I start to call earth "home." Before you know it, I am calling luxeries "needs" and using my money just the way unbelievers do. I begin to forget the war. I don't think much about people perishing. Missions and unreached people drop out of my mind. I stop dreaming about the triumphs of grace. I sink into a secular mind-set that looks first to what man can do, not what God can do. It is a terrible sickness. And I thank God for those who have forced me again and again toward a wartime mind-set. ↗

— John Piper

#fitting-in #materialism #mind-set #missions #money

We are not here to match and homogenize and agree on every point. One size of spirituality does not fit all. We are here to be our divine selves, boldly, passionately, respectfully, to the absolute best of our ability — and this, this is more than enough. ↗

— sera break

#diversity #inner-divinity #self-respect #spirituality #respect