#i

The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#life

It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and lead this life, the one I am leading today. Each morning the blue clock and the crocheted bedspread, the table with the Phone, the books and magazines, the Times at the door. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#life

If I had my life over again[, ] I'd have thought more about words. And thought about them earlier. ↗

— Enid Bagnold

#life

....my brain works like an etch-a-sketch; even the slightest movement causes it to go completely blank. ↗

— Quinn Cummings

#forgetful #life

There is only one story. It is the story of an evolving cosmos awakening to itself and becoming conscious. Who could argue with that? It happened. And it is happyning. First there was matter. Then one fine day, life. Then just a short while back, self-consciousness. And most recently, the recognition of, and identification with, Spirit. ↗

— Gaghdad Bob

#spirituality #life

Jude leaped out of arm's reach, and walked along the trackway weeping--not from the pain, though that was keen enough; not from the perception of the flaw in the terrestrial scheme, by which what was good for God's birds was bad for God's gardener; but with the awful sense that he had wholly disgraced himself before he had been a year in the parish, and hence might be a burden to his great-aunt for life. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#god #life

Power Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry. ↗

— Matthew Norman

#life

Is the church really demonstrating the new life in Christ if there is no discipline, if there is no fencing in of the Lord's table, no demand for purity of life? ↗

— Michael Sattler

#christianity #life

There is a purpose in life--to raise men nearer to the likeness of God. Whoever seeks that ideal, daily, finds joy; and in no other way can true joy be found. ↗

— John Andreas Widtsoe

#religion #life

ولا تظنن أن معرفة درجات الوحي تستدعي منصب الوحي إذ لا يبعد أن يعرف الطبيب المريض درجات الصحة ويعلم العالم الفاسق درجات العدالة وإن كان خاليا عنها فالعلم شيء ووجود المعلوم شيء آخر فلا كل من عرف النبوة والولاية كان نبيا ولا وليا ولا كل من عرف التقوى والورع ودقائقه كان تقيا ↗

— أبو حامد الغزالي

#science