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Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargo Congealed in the dark arteries, Old veins That hold Glamorgan's blood. The midnight miner in the secret seams, Limb, life, and bread. - Rhondda Valley ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#coal #coal-miner #glamorgan #hills #miners

A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person. ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

#books #honesty #life #wisdom #writers-world

Every pilot needs a co-pilot, and let me tell you, it is awful nice to have someone sitting there beside you, especially when you hit some bumpy air. ↗

— Eric Wald

#life #life

Over the years I've really believed when you think you're in danger, you are probably not and when you have no idea, you probably are. ↗

— Rodney Cocks

#dangerous-world #life-philosophy #life

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#law #move #parents #sixty #turned

People who work in offices are crazy, they create an environment they hate, write rules they want to break, cast each other in roles they despise. It’s like they’re sixth formers in an end of term drama acting out the agony of everything they fear most in their life but they forget to end the play. ↗

— Helen Smith

#life

I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I...I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not... for once, I'm not destroying I'm creating. ↗

— Sarah J. Maas

#music #music

little children never get frozen by their selfishness. Like the disciples, they come just as they are, totally self-absorbed. They seldom get it right. As parents or friends, we know all that. In fact, we are delighted (most of the time!) to find out what is on their little hearts. We don’t scold them for being self-absorbed or fearful. That is just who they are. ↗

— Paul Miller

#life

The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is. ↗

— John Piper

#christ #christianity #god #kindness #life

When you can't get what you want, get what you need ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#philosophy #wisdom #life