#dom

No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God's valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn't know what it is like to climb out of a pit of shame and rise above their temptations. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#daughters-of-god #forgiveness #god #grace #growth

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare. ↗

— William Blake

#inspirational #wisdom #inspirational

One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like. ↗

— Andy Andrews

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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise. ↗

— William Blake

#wisdom #inspirational

My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you. ↗

— Elise Broach

#prejudice #wisdom #inspirational

I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good. ↗

— Sarah Rees Brennan

#wisdom #writing #inspirational

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman? ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#women #inspirational

Look no farther than your hand, Make a choice and take a stand. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#wisdom #inspirational

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up... ↗

— Confucius

#philosophy #wisdom #inspirational

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them? ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#observation #resignation #wisdom #inspirational