#fat

The sword of the Spirit has been muffled up and decked out with flowers and ribbons," author writes, conveying the sentiments of a Congregationist minister on men's ceding of moral and religious instruction and correction as women's work. ↗

— Nancy Pearcey

#leadership #leadership

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#love #love-struck #obsession #life

I was in the biggest breakdown of my life when I stopped crying long enough to let the words of my epiphany really sink in. That whore, karma had finally made her way around and had just bitch-slapped me right across the face. The realization only made me cry harder. ↗

— Jennifer Salaiz

#heartbreak #jennifer-salaiz #karma #life #sadness

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it. ↗

— Goldie Hawn

#fate #life #life

We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#life #lolita #nabokov #life

I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#hold #hug #parent #picoult #life

Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#good-and-evil #sherlock-holmes #life

Yeah. A feeling. Like the whole point of my life from the alleys in Bangkok to the yachts and private island to coming here like a crazy person trying to fly a helicopter like all of it from birth to here point A to point Z was all some big cosmic trick to get me to meet you. - Sanjit to Lana ↗

— Michael Grant

#lana #sanjit #sweet-talk #life

What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted. ↗

— John Marsden

#future #life #life

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley. ↗

— Robert Burns

#fate #life #planning #plans #life