#dent

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#faith #god #identity #love #self

You must have faith in yourself before you have faith in anyone else. ↗

— Ronnie Riggar

#inspirational #faith

My Miracle, living through a Traumatic brain Injury ↗

— Rodney Barnes

#college #family #friends #jesus #life

Peter." The fine hair along her spine rising, Vicky could feel the power in a name. This is who you are, it said. Come back to us. ↗

— Tanya Huff

#identity #power-in-a-name #who-you-are #family

I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends. ↗

— Ana Monnar

#family-in-general #father #god #jesus-christ #love

By nature independent, gay, even exuberant, seductively responsive and given to those spontaneous sallies that sparkle in the conversation of certain daughters of Paris who seem to have inhaled since childhood the pungent breath of the boulevards laden with the nightly laughter of audiences leaving theaters, Madame de Burne's five years of bondage had nonetheless endowed her with a singular timidity which mingled oddly with her youthful mettle, a great fear of saying too much, of going to far, along with a fierce yearning for emancipation and a firm resolve never again to compromise her freedom. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#fear #fierce #freedom #independent #paris

I think I’ll hang myself under the tree that Agatha and I had our first picnic under. I’ll just have to reschedule my dentist appointment. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #suicide #funny

Ah college years, those were the days. Pure freedom ... leaving home for the first time…the parties…” "What about the tutorials, the lectures, the large building with all the books called the ‘library’?” “Is that what those were?” Gerry blithely replied. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#college #colleges #funny #humor #humour

Dentistry is a precondition to love at first sight. Relationships are no longer about pulling teeth, but bleaching. That's why when your eyes meet, she beams with happiness - but when you smile back she shows her true reflexes. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #love #smiling #teeth

He had never got so much back for himself from any pupil as he did from Miss Kronborg. From the first she had stimulated him; something in her personality invariably affected him. Now that he was feeling his way toward her voice, he found her more interesting than ever before. She lifted the tedium of the winter for him, gave him curious fancies and reveries. Musically, she was sympathetic to him. Why this was true, he never asked himself. He had learned that one must take where and when one can the mysterious mental irritant that rouses one's imagination; that it is not to be had by order. She often wearied him, but she never bored him. ↗

— Willa Cather

#imagination #pupil #student #teacher #imagination