#if

I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth. ↗

— Mary Griffith

#gay #leroy-arrons #lgbt #marry-griffith #prayers-for-bobby

If you could sum up your life in one sentence, then you didn’t live much of a life. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#life

You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character.  ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#learning #life-lessons #money #richelle #richelle-goodrich

No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#life #life

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#boredom #controlled #creative #creative man #directed

Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves. ↗

— Wayne Coyne

#happy #life #life

He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give. ↗

— Martina Cole

#people #life

I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when things or people were complex or contradictory, I pretended otherwise. I turned every defeat into a disaster, every success into an epic triumph, and separated all people into heroes or villains. Unable to bear ambiguity, I built a barricade of delusions against it. ↗

— J.R. Moehringer

#life

There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep. ↗

— Dion Fortune

#spiritual #life

There is a distinct difference between the ability to create life and the innate need to protect it; to cherish it. The life you've created is the one being you love most in the universe, and that intense love evolves into something that goes far beyond a sense of duty. It is instinct; pure and undeniable. As a direct result, one must neglect all else to preserve it. Even those we have claimed to love before. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#mothers #life