#ch

A live body is not only one which never gets old, but one that can to some extent repair itself. In the same way, a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble - because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat the kind of voulentary death Christ Himself carried out. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#death

I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#american children #campaign #children #hungry #i

I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract. ↗

— Hermione Gingold

#any #contract #enough #got #i

Many collectors died in process of searching for new species, and despite persistent reports that the men died from drowning, gunshot and knife wounds, snakebite, trampling by cattle, or blows in the head with blunt instruments, it is generally accepted that in each case the primary cause of death was orchid fever. ↗

— Eric Hansen

#history-of-mankind #humor #orchids #death

Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think. ↗

— Michael Moorcock

#eternal-champion #magic #man #mankind #sanity

You always hear people say that having kids changes everything, but you can't fully realize it until you have children yourself. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#changes #children #everything #fully #having

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living. ↗

— William Throsby Bridges

#itself #life #life is a #living #person

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster. ↗

— William Throsby Bridges

#disaster #doing #first #first step #make

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage. ↗

— Alan Brien

#almost #does #done #drainage #every

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years. ↗

— John Bright

#bad #caused #depression #extension #great