#fat

But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER. ↗

— John Green

#cigarettes #fatal-flaw #money

You know what I was thinking about on my way home? How different my life would be if you’d made that gash a little deeper. Or how different yours would be if I’d vaulted myself off a roof nine years ago. Do you ever think about things like that? Like, if either you or I wouldn’t have made it, where would the other one be right now? It was something I thought about all the time: how death changes every remaining moment for those still living. ↗

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

#destiny #fate #life #change

Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I’ll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into fat and manure, some into work and good humor, and others, I’m told, into God.” - Zorba. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#food #god #humour #work #zorba

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. ↗

— Aristotle

#because #certain #children #fathers #fonder

Balsa seemed invincible, endowed with powers no other warrior could match, but in her profile he could glimpse the shadow of a young girl, hurt and buffeted by a cruel and hopeless fate. If he had never experienced what it was like to be at the mercy of fate himself, he would not have noticed, but now he could see it with unbearable, heartrending clarity. ↗

— Nahoko Uehashi

#girl-warrior #love-hurts #mercy-of-fate #strong-women #women-s-strength

To deny the force of divine judgment, then, is to make God less than God, and to make us less than His children. For every father must discipline His children, and paternal discipline is itself a mercy, a fatherly expression of love. ↗

— Scott Hahn

#god #love #mercy #love

The smell of her hair lingered just out of reach of his memory and left him with a nervous hum resonating throughout his body like a child forced to sit in church while the sun was shining outside on a perfectly good summer's day. ↗

— Erik Tomblin

#falling-in-love #infatuation #summer #sweet-abandon #youthfulness

She had never loved him so much as she did in that instant. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#fathers-and-daughters #game-of-thrones #love

Judgment, then, is not an impersonal, legalistic process. It is a matter of love, and it is something we choose for ourselves. Nor is punishment a vindictive act. God's "curses" are not expressions of hatred, but of fatherly love and discipline. Like medicinal ointment, they hurt in order to heal. They impose suffering that is remedial, restorative, and redemptive. God's wrath is an expression of His love for His wayward children. ↗

— Scott Hahn

#god #judgment #love #punishment #love

Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain! ↗

— Anthony Marais

#love #love-hurts #love