#here

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent. ↗

— Karen Allen

#felt #had #i #independent #just

You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment. ↗

— Karen Allen

#birds #bouncing #environment #hear #i

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#cardboard #create #exciting #exists #i

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church. ↗

— William Ames

#absolutely #any #assent #church #even

Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation. ↗

— William Ames

#effectual #here #inward #meaning #often

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin. ↗

— Tori Amos

#analyze #begin #bleeding #cleansing #crawl

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be. ↗

— Tori Amos

#like #sometimes #want #where #you

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer. ↗

— Tori Amos

#composer #dreams #go #i #i think

It's a lot about the individual and it's really up to you, how much you dedicate to the fight and how hard you are working and that's where the outcome will come. ↗

— Alexis Arguello

#come #dedicate #fight #hard #how

"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know. ↗

— Andre Gide

#know #must #poet #therefore #word