#fat

Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids—not because you are right. That's how our Father listens to us. ↗

— Rich Mullins

#father #life #life

How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday thought it would look like. ↗

— Jim Beaver

#jim #life #life

It was strange even after suffering from fate, a person in love would choose the same fate over his life. ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#life #love #life

One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#life #life

To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#christ #christianity #god #god-father #god-son

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness. ↗

— George Eliot

#infatuation #life

You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore. ↗

— Jim Thompson

#life #rage #life

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be. ↗

— Julia Glass

#life

A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl ↗

— Allison Pearson

#life

The next day he woke up feeling like he'd been unshackled from his fat, like he'd been washed clean from his misery, and for a long time he couldn't remember why he felt this way, and then he said her name. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#her-name #love #misery #life