#din

Why wait? So precious is this life—this gift—this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this. ↗

— Jennifer DeLucy

#encouragement #faith #finding-joy #growing-up #hard-times

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#reading #solitude #life

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight. ↗

— Richard de Bury

#delightful #reading #love

An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life. ↗

— Hervé Le Tellier

#life-lessons #reading #life

The journey is the mystery…the destination the answer. If you don’t have a happy ending yet, you have not finished reading the right book. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#life #love #understanding #life

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#life #reading #refuge #life

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it. ↗

— Miranda Richardson

#attitude #depending #laugh #los #los angeles

Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise. ↗

— Patricia Richardson

#attention #believe #creative #creative ways #finding

...love is suffering - that's the happy ending... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #suffering #love

We have the greatest power through love that can be known. It overcomes everything with its fierce and steady truth, if you can continue to stand in it. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#power #stand #standing-your-ground #steady #truth-fierce