#ene

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#bleeding #bleeds #death #health #heart

Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place. ↗

— John Buford

#advance #enemy #everybody #excitement #found

Have you noticed there are some people--Americans especially--who seem untouched by the war, or at least, unmangled by it? I don't mean to imply that Mark was a shirker--he was in their Air Corps--but he's simply not sunk under it. And when I'm with him, I feel untouched by the war, too. It's an illusion, I know it is, and truthfully, I'd be ashamed of myself if the war hadn't touched me. But it's forgivable to enjoy myself a little--isn't it? ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#forgiveness

But haven't all ambitious people something of the monstrous about them? You, sir, for instance, if you will forgive me, are a little bit monstrous. ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#titus-groan #forgiveness

I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#comedies #every #general #get #i

Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded. ↗

— Susan George

#around #been #being #children #collapsing

Forgiveness is a gift we can only give to ourselves. ↗

— Jeffrey Spahr-Summers

#hope #inspirational #love #forgiveness

More Miracles occur from Gratitude and Forgiveness than anything else ↗

— Philip H. Friedman

#gratitude #miracles #forgiveness

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#arts #book #first #first thing #i

There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth. ↗

— Frances Burney

#anything #create #cruel #despite #earth