#del

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. ↗

— Harold Ross

#back #day #few #filled #his

Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#inspirational #lauren-oliver #love #novels #romance

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.) ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#existentialism #handeln #inspirational #philosophy #reality

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#demands #difficult #fidelity #greater #heroic

Un guerriero della luce presta attenzione agli occhi di un bambino. Perché quegli occhi sanno vedere il mondo senza amarezza. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#italian #life #manuale-del-guerriero-della-luce #inspirational

I know that many, if not most, women would have a problem with my acceptance of what happened with Lara. The reality is I shall always be grateful to Lara for helping my husband when I could not do so. I couldn’t have chosen a better or kinder surrogate. ↗

— Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker

#infidelity #marriage #unconditonal-love #forgiveness

Forgive me, Lord, if ever I should wrap myself in pharisiac robes when I see another fall In no way am I greater because of another’s weakness. At the most it only turns the eyes of the crowd away from my own frailty. Few of us would ever think of hurting someone physically but too many times we have used the power of "talk" to kill. Here, Lord, take these stones I hold. ↗

— Glenna Oldham

#the-sisters #the-warrior-series #warriors-of-the-cross #forgiveness

«Mewar, my Priestess, speak,» said the creature marvelously disturbing. «Vueno, my Goddess, forgive me if I disturbed you, but I think you need to be informed.» «I'm listening.» Mewar didn't raise her head. «My Goddess, is here. Now. At the Palace.» «Are you sure?» «I could never be wrong. Hurrichein is with her.» «And so the Heir is out of the closet.» ↗

— Chiara Cilli

#forgiveness

«You're late, Prince,» admonished the woman. Galadir tried quickly to process an excuse, but all he could say was: «Forgive me, I was ... retained.» «From the blankets?» ↗

— Chiara Cilli

#forgiveness

IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them. ↗

— Stafford Beer

#cybernetics #models #paradigms #science #change