#ife

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#ethics #humanism #indispensable #life #sociology

It's the plain truth: without Richard Parker, I wouldn't be alive today to tell you my story ↗

— Yann Martel Life of Pi

#life #life-of-pi #richard-parker #inspirational

Enlightenment is not about cocooning one’s self, but about integrating more fully with both your self and life. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#enlightened #enlightening #enlightenment #integrate #integrating

There’s a moment in everybody’s life when you’re hopeless, just hopeless with hope and trust. And then something happens, something too big to understand, and then everything changes ↗

— Will Donner

#everybody #happens #hope #hopeless #life

Life is a long lesson in humility. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#humility #lesson #life is a #long

Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all. ↗

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#illness #inspirational #life #life-changing #meaning

...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#myth #novels #reading-books #art

Face the reality.... where the future is not faithless. ↗

— Chimaraoke Prospect Ekere

#philosophy-of-life #inspirational

Writing is not a hobby. Collecting stamps or coins is a hobby. Writing is a calling. ↗

— Barbara Abercrombie

#writing-life #inspirational

When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one purpose only: you need to change everything and move forward. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#purpose #change