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Actual message in letter I mailed: Congrats on getting married! Here’s a hundred-dollar gift certificate to Amazon.com. You could buy something practical, or you could buy 101 copies of my .99 cents ebook. Just kidding—I didn’t mean to imply that buying 101 copies of my book was impractical. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#books #gift-certificate #impractical #insightful #letter

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire. ↗

— Scott Hahn

#encouragement #inspirational #suffering #inspirational

Love is something worth suffering for... ↗

— Scott Hahn

#encouragement #inspirational #suffering #inspirational

The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed its color and shape and expression according to time and place and weather. It aroused a deep sadness in his heart, and at the same time it brought his heart peace and comfort. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life-changing #moody #moving #ocean #vastness

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christianity #god #hearts #heaven

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing. ↗

— Ronald Heifetz

#careers #jobs #vocation #change

God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres. ↗

— Teresa of Ávila

#inspirational #religion #inspirational

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for. ↗

— T.H. White

#humility #inspirational #love #self-deprecating #wooing

Lifting our cup means sharing our life so we can celebrate it. When we truly believe we are called to lay down our lives for our friends, we must dare to take the risk to let others know what we are living. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#catholic-author #inspirational #inspirational

Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge. ↗

— Caroline Pratt

#education #progressive-education #education