#close

You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#grow #holy #leave #world #you

I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. and I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God. ↗

— Tim Tebow

#better #closer #constantly #every #fail

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees; maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#anyway #argue #bees #best #calculate

I played Mary Joe Fernandez in the semifinals. She was winning the first set. Second set was very close. I started to play this aggressive game. I think I surprised them. ↗

— Gabriela Sabatini

#close #first #game #i #i think

The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#appear #began #book #cast #characters

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#closely #earned #i #imitate #imitating

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#art #believe #close #course #exactly

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#closest #hated #life #most #obstinate

It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet. ↗

— Cybill Shepherd

#advocacy #birth #bringing #closet #field

Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#being happy #break #closes #door #down