#allen

Some people are busy working on their pose instead of their purpose. ↗

— Saji Ijiyemi

#fearlessness #inspirational #life-changing #motivational #personal-development

Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#courage #hero #independence #inspirational #courage

I guess you're coming as my date now." Simon shoved the phone into his pocket. "I'm secure enough in my masculinity to accept that," said Jordan. "We better get you something nice to wear, though," he called as Simon headed back into his room. "I want you to look pretty. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jordan-kyle #simon-lewis #dating

Be a bit of a challenge; not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-single #challenge #dating #know-your-value #love

I'm Allen Walker!" My life....is over...I'm going to die.... ↗

— Katsura Hoshino

#angst #death #die #horror #humor

You're better than the life you've settled for. RISE to the challenge of your dreams! Don't just dream it - LIVE it! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#dreams #life #success #dreams

She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower." "And?" Eddis prompted. "Well," said Eugenides, "it's a challenge. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

#challenge

Do you have a lot of other profound thoughts like that? Blood is blood? A toaster is a toaster? A Gelatinous Cube is a Gelatinous Cube? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#simon-lewis #blood

If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen. ↗

— Brené Brown

#joy #love #resilience #experience

The Christian message has a moral challenge. If the message is true, the moral challenge has to be accepted. So God is not a fit object for man’s detached scrutiny. You cannot fix God at the end of a telescope or a microscope and say “How interesting!” God is not interesting. He is deeply upsetting. The same is true of Jesus Christ … We know that to find God and to accept Jesus Christ would be a very inconvenient experience. It would involve the rethinking of our whole outlook on life and the readjustment of our whole manner of life. And it is a combination of intellectual and moral cowardice which makes us hesitate. We do not find because we do not seek. We do not seek because we do not want to find, and we know that the way to be certain of not finding is not to seek … Christ’s promise is plain: "Seek and you will find. ↗

— John R.W. Stott

#christ #cost-of-discipleship #experience