#grace

Do you have a Wish?' he asked, referring to this organization, The Genie Foundation, which is in the business of granting sick kids one wish. 'No' I said. 'I used my Wish pre-Miracle.' 'What'd you do?' I sighed loudly. 'I was thirteen,' I said. 'Not Disney,' he said. I said nothing. 'You did not go to Disney World.' I said nothing. 'HAZEL GRACE!' he shouted. 'You did not use your one dying Wish to go to Disney World with your parents.' 'Also Epcot Center,' I mumbled. 'Oh, my God,' Augustus said. 'I can't believe I had a crush on a girl with such cliché wishes. ↗

— John Green

#disney-world #hazel-grace #the-fault-in-our-stars #business

To hit bottom is to fall from grace. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#fall #grace #hit

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. ↗

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

#before #culture #grace #literature #poetry

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time. ↗

— Jewel

#grace #guess #i #more #more and more

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#ceremonial #ceremonies #desire #ever #exclusively

I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#gracefully #grow #i #meet #old

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. ↗

— May Sarton

#back #circles #down #everything #forces

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. ↗

— Walter Scott

#grace #hereditary #heroic #lends #makes

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#cheerfully #fingers #give #grace #hesitation

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#front #god #grace #infinitely #nobler