#be

No one can give you better advice than yourself. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#better #give #than #you #yourself

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#beauty #form #friendship #inspired #love

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#believed #better #ever #existed #himself

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#better #endure #giving #moving #name

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#born #deadly #disease #ever #recovers

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#constant #constant need #doing #far #feel

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#belief #flourishes #intelligence #only #withers

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#did #hope #human #human beings #interested

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#ever #i #i can #limitations #more

The task of all Christian scholarship—not just biblical studies—is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it, and to make it serve the good of man. It is an abdication of scholarship when Christians do academic work with little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to make his manifold glory known and loved, then to treat any subject without reference to God’s glory is not scholarship but insurrection. ↗

— John Piper

#glory-of-god #beauty