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If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die ↗

— Natsuo Kirino

#sad #thought-provoking #life

Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique. ↗

— D.B. Harrop

#life-lessons #life-philosophy #love #respect-yourself #respecting-others

I should learn to run, to wrestle, to swim, to ride horses, to row, to drive a car, to fire a rifle. I should fill my soul with flesh. I should fill my flesh with soul. In fact, I should reconcile at last within me the two internal antagonists. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#life #life

Your call will become clear as as your mind is transformed by the reading of Scripture and the internal work of God's Spirit. The Lord never hides His will from us. In time, as you obey the call first to follow, your destiny will unfold before you. The difficulty will lie in keeping other concerns from diverting your attention. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#god #gods-will #holy-spirit #life #life

Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end. He sees that his life is determined by these two facets, of which he knows only that he does not know them ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#creation #temptation #life

A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker] ↗

— Winston Churchill

#life

Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38 ↗

— Thomas Merton

#love #life

blown into my life like a hurricane, turned me upside down, challenged me at every turn. And, together, we sparked like lightning. ↗

— Kim Harrington

#life

[M]y favorite teacher was explaining that you don't say but however. These are pleonasms: the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. There are times in life that are very but however. ↗

— Stefano Benni

#grammar #language #life

القرارات تشكل فقط بداية شيء ما..فعندما يتخذ شخص قراراً ما يغوص فعلاً في تيار جارف يحمله نحو وجهة لم يكن يتوقعها إطلاقاً حتى في الحلم لحظة إتخذ ذلك القرار ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life