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The most destructive thing we can possibly do in life is to make another person doubt his worth and identity as a child of God. The very most productive thing we can do is to help ourselves and others realize that as children of God, our worth is infinite. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#god #life #self-worth #life

Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. "Look, we're not clear-cutting. All we're doing is pulling out the garbage that the Rusties left behend," David said. "It just takes a little surgery to do it. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#david #rusties #uglies #life

He gathered me closer, kissed my neck, then spoke in a low voice next to my ear. “I figure, see, if you find yourself getting more attached to the two of us than you planned, maybe you won’t think about picking up and leaving to start another life somewhere else. ↗

— Jenn Bennett

#lon #life

I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre ↗

— Halen Hayes

#life

To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism. ↗

— Shunryu Suzuki

#life-philosophy #phlilosophy #zen-buddhism #life

Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory. ↗

— John Green

#wish #world #life

you're like a dictionary, you add meaning to my life ↗

— Shannon Dermott

#incubus #succubus-on-top #life

For introverts, who have limited energy for interaction, we need to be more thoughtful and deliberate about whom we meet—which, happily, is what we do best. ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

#life

It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one. ↗

— Andre Gide

#life

I knew it,’ she says. ‘I knew I had met you before. I knew it the first time I saw your photograph. It’s as if we had to meet again at some point in this life. I talked to my friends about it, but they thought I was crazy, that thousands of people must say the same thing about thousands of other people every day. I thought they must be right, but life… life brought you to me. You came to find me, didn’t you? ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life