#ge

If you are a Buddhist, inspire yourself by thinking of the bodhisattva. If you are a Christian, think of the Christ, who came not to be served by others but to serve them in joy, in peace, and in generosity. For these things, these are not mere words, but acts, which go all the way, right up to their last breath. Even their death is a gift, and resurrection is born from this kind of death. (157) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#bodhisattva #buddhism #buddhist #christ #christianity

Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on. ↗

— Stephen King

#death

This was like National Lampoon's Vacation, but with death, property destruction, and an Irish accent. ↗

— Abigail Roux

#death

The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#away #could #edge #ended #enormous

Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing. ↗

— Scott Adams

#timing #age

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death ↗

— Aeschylus

#inspirational #death

I don't know whether to be proud or appalled that danger, blood and death inspire you so. ↗

— Samantha Young

#danger #death #humor #inspiration #death

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with. ↗

— William Wiley

#available #communicate #concepts #confine #english

Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#marriage #communication

I want to look at you as you kill me. ↗

— Curtis Jobling

#death #strength #courage