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To my fellow Crosses, keep the faith. ↗

— Malorie Blackman

#love #persephone #persephone-hadley #sephy #faith

We are not defined by belief or by faith nor religion.We are the family of God. ↗

— Ellen J. Barrier

#faith #family #god #religion #faith

Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to. ↗

— David Mitchell

#cloud-atlas #disgust #hate #history #postmodern

The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters. ↗

— David Levithan

#self-discovery

Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words 'Be still'. What does stillness mean? It means destroy yourself. Because any form or shape is the cause for trouble. Give up the notion that 'I am so and so'. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that? ↗

— Ramana Maharshi

#meditation #self #stillness #self-realization

The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#fight #identification #self-realization #uncertainly #self-realization

Our images of God matter. Just as how we conceptualize God affects what we think the Christian life is about, so do our images of God. ↗

— Marcus J. Borg

#conceptualizing #god #image #life #faith

It was hard for them to accuse their wives of infidelity when their rival was an invisible man. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#infidelity

Trust what you know; have faith in where you go; if there's no wind, row; or go with the flow. ↗

— Ed Parrish III

#act #believe-in-yourself #confidence #direction #faith

I watched her and I watched the birds' shadows flit across her face, and I...wanted. I wanted more happy memories to hang up on the ceiling, so many happy memories with this girl that they would crowd the ceiling and flap out into the hall and burst out of the house. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#romance #werewolves #werewolves