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The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the “I do” of the wedding ritual in all sincerity, it is the testing of that vow over time that makes you married. ↗

— Kathleen Norris

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Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang; Ye were not made to live like unto brutes But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#excellence #humanity #knowledge #life #virtue

To accept the lively, the messy, and the unexpected things in our days, knowing that God sees them and has an eternal perspective, is to say with confidence I receive your timing. ↗

— Emily P. Freeman

#life #perspective #time #life

Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain needed to stay incessantly active, and if it was not getting its usual stimulation..., it would create its own stimulation in the form of hallucinations. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#hallucinations #music #musical-hallucinations #neuroscience #psychology

I was becoming convinced that I was going to be lonely for the rest of my life. It wasn't that I wasn't meeting men. I was. It was just that they all drove me crazy. ↗

— Maria Dahvana Headley

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Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present. ↗

— John le Carré

#lack #life #present #purpose #life

They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him. ↗

— Iris Johansen

#love #understanding #life

Human beings have their great chance in the novel. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#meaning #meaning-of-life #life

But leaving is just something that happens in life. We all do it someday, one way or another. There's worse things than going away with the taste of love still fresh in our mouths. ↗

— Jenny Wingfield

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What right have such men to represent Christianity—as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly? ↗

— George Eliot

#mediocrity #ministry #life