#eat

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#breath #each #experience #how #just

I don't need a guarantee if I have you. ↗

— Kristin Cast

#love #zoey-redbird #love

Death, everyone fears it in one way or another but when I stood in front of it myself, face to face, I felt no fear. ↗

— Atarah L. Poling

#fear #romance-novels #death

When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part. ↗

— John Irving

#grief #loss #love

Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do: make good art. . . . Someone on the internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before: make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and it doesn’t even matter. Do what only you can do best: make good art. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#creative-process #encouragement #inspirational #art

With the death of what Sydney Smith described as rational religon and the proponents of what remains sending out such confusing and uncertain messages, all civilised people have to be ethicists. We must work out our own salvation with diligence based on what we believe. ↗

— P.D. James

#ethics #religion #salvation #death

What did she care what became of this world when her loved ones were dead and gone? ↗

— Allie Burke

#love #death

Dr. Murray points to the Nazarite system as what he calls an external scaffolding supporting human efforts at righteousness, reminding the participant that he is set apart. Christ, he said, needed no external reminder that the Father was His joy and that wine was not, that He was Life and was wholly Other from death, that He bore on Himself the shame that long hair but vaguely pointed to. ↗

— David Murray

#religion #ritual #death

Love makes you stupid. Love makes you weak. Love will kill you all one day, and it’s going to kill you today. ↗

— J.X. Burros

#love #scarlet-spotlight #vampire #death

Shriveled apple cores stood side by side on the window sill, a long row of them with their seed chambers bitten open and the pointed sees scattered on the floor. The brown, discolored remnants of their flesh bore the imprint of his grandfather's teeth. That was the image This was left with, the one that ever since was the first to recur when he thought of his dead grandfather: shriveled apple cores on the sill of a window that looked out onto an overgrown garden. ↗

— Hansjörg Schertenleib

#descriptive #death