#eli

Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#feelings #faith

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#reliability #friendship

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#behaviour #belief-systems #child-development #conditioning #education-system

Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them. ↗

— Immaculee Ilibagiza

#education #humility #wisdom #education

Loneliness is a good education. You learn the things no crowds can teach and you discover the things no crowds can give. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#education

I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#women-s-history #equality

If someone who had given up his whole life to thinking about goodness and rightness and truth and still expected nuns to cook him his fish fingers (because after all, nuns haven't got anything else better to do, and none of them are ever going to be priests or become the Pope, because women aren't good enough for that), then something was very wrong. How could he have missed the bit about everyone being equal in the eyes of God? ↗

— Scarlett Thomas

#equality

We are a race of peo­ple try­ing to find an­swers, and to me, re­li­gion is kind of like last year’s text­books: out of date with too many notes in the mar­gins from the last fuck­ing guy. ↗

— Corey Taylor

#dating

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#religion #experience

Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties -- all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion -- these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#loneliness #on-fiction #experience