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I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#humility #prayer #surrender #faith

Disease, then, is one of those bad experiences that turns information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. The bad experiences that make you love yourself and your body and the world. And make you know that you are in a game that has to have a happy ending. ↗

— George Sheehan

#happy-ending #running #wisdom #experience

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#friendship #faith

I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags. ↗

— Tana French

#cruelty #independence #love #men #strength

Strong relationships come from well-bonded friendships. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#life #love #relationships #friendship

Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#exigence #favor #friends #friendship #friendship

Sure, we were friends who exchanged soulful glances, friends who slept in a bed filled with sexual tension, friends who found any excuse to touch, but I worried that we'd never take that perilous leap of faith toward becoming a real couple, a permanent team. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#love #faith

Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203) ↗

— Janice Hanna

#enduring #faith #persistence #prayer #faith

Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction. ↗

— Sam Harris

#faith

Chicks before dicks, and all that. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#humor #friendship