#d

To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all. ↗

— Roopleen

#courage #determination #goals #inspiration #inspire

As I ponder my pilgrim’s progress to Orthodoxy, however, I realize that I didn’t make the trip alone, but in a two-seater. And I wasn’t the one driving. ↗

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

#convert #faith #orthodoxy #faith

I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades. ↗

— Bela Kun

#attitude #certain #comrades #had #i

I am sorry for being so weak. I will always love you…” Arin whispers back to his family without facing them again, “But this Detrelli, this devil… it will never touch another person … never again… Not a single death will go unaccounted for, I promise you both… I promise…”    ↗

— Jason J. Berg

#death

Et in Arcadia Ego ↗

— Numerous Evelyn Waugh

#brevity-of-life #death #beauty

...she had wondered which was worse: the sudden good-bye you know is a good-bye or the long good-bye you have to guess. ↗

— Rachel Simon

#sadness-love #beauty

Laugh until you cry, don't cry until you laugh. ↗

— Karen Bishop

#attitude

winner's make it happen ; losers let it happen . ↗

— Justin Herald

#attitude

He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the window glass, comforted to know there was another world out there, one he could walk to anytime he wanted. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#drapes #walk-out #windows #food

She quotes Robert Louis Stevenson about how young writers must read like predators. And she says that all of us, not just writers, must read like predators. For books are food, she said, for every single one of us. ↗

— Pete Hamill

#food