#grace

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#inspirational #life #inspirational

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#crime #disgrace #does #punishment

One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people. ↗

— Stephanie Beacham

#children #deaf #deaf people #grace #i

One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#already #eyes #giving #gracefully #having

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them. ↗

— Thomas Hooker

#discerned #godly #graces #least #may

I mean, we don’t have to worry about it until winter, anyway,” she said. “I was just wondering if you felt cured.” I didn’t know what to tell her. I didn’t feel cured. I felt like what Cole said —almost cured. A war survivor with a phantom limb. I still felt that wolf that I’d been: living in my cells, sleeping uneasily, waiting to be coaxed out by weather or a rush of adrenaline or a needle in my veins. I didn’t know if that was real or suggested. I didn’t know if one day I would feel secure in my skin, taking my human body for granted. “You look cured,” Grace said. Just her face was visible at the end of the shower curtain, looking in at me. She grinned and I yelled. Grace reached in just far enough to shut off the tap. “I’m afraid,” she said, whipping the shower curtain open all the way and presenting me with my towel, “this is the sort of thing you’ll have to put up with in your old age.” I stood there, dripping, feeling utterly ridiculous, Grace standing opposite, smiling with her challenge. There was nothing for it but to get over the awkwardness. Instead of taking the towel, I took her chin with my wet fingers and kissed her. Water from my hair ran down my cheeks and onto our lips. I was getting her shirt all wet, but she didn’t seem to mind. A lifetime of this seemed rather appealing. I said gallantly, “That better be a promise. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#sam #age

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was. ↗

— Aberjhani

#faith #famous-poets #famous-quotes #freedom #grace

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. ↗

— Thomas Guthrie

#gives #grace #luster #nature #rough

Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life? ↗

— Henry Harland

#do you know #grace #know #life #minor

With each opportunity before me, God presented me with a choice. I could accept His offerings, His wisdom, His grace. Or I could choose to hold onto the pain, the anger and the resentment a little longer. ↗

— Sharon E. Rainey

#opportunity #resentment #anger