#is

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#culture #dreams #history #imagination #dreams

I got uncertain from this, I'll be perfect from now on. But all my promises, they're out the window once you're gone. You pack your bags. You say I love you but I cannot stay. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#i-love-you-but-i-cannot-stay #if-it-was-you #promises #sara-quin #tegan-and-sara

Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph, just as Irish heroes had once tied to their waists their enemies' heads. Where they went they brought their love of learning and their skills in bookmaking. In the bays and valleys of their exile, they reestablished literacy and breathed new life into the exhausted literary culture of Europe. And that is how the Irish saved civilization. ↗

— Thomas Cahill

#irish #literacy #life

Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life. ↗

— John Piper

#hope #life #sacrifice #service #life

As he clutched her in his shaking hands and wept against her, he whispered into her ear, the words that made him believe. “Love bears all things. Endures all things,” he said. “Ours has, hasn’t it?” She nodded and held him tighter. “But can it endure this, Anais? This demon who holds me so mercilessly in its claws?” She touched his face and kissed him. “My love can and will, Lindsay. I will be here when you open your eyes. I will give you whatever you need to make it more bearable. ↗

— Charlotte Featherstone

#anais #charlotte-feathestone #lindsay #love

Try and live your life the way you wish other people would live theirs. ↗

— Raymond Burr

#live #other #people #theirs #try

If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#christianity #god-s-love #god-s-presence #love

He's mine. I love him, and you can't have him, Christine. You can't have them both. ↗

— Sadie Montgomery

#erik #meg-giry #opera-ghost #phantom-of-the-opera #love

Effective discipline is based on loving guidance. It is based on the belief that children are born innately good and that our role as parents is to nurture their spirits as they learn about limits and boundaries, rather than to curb their tendencies toward wrongdoing. Effective discipline presumes that children have reasons for their behavior and that cooperation can be engaged to solve shared problems. ↗

— Peggy O'Mara

#gentle-discipline #love

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others. ↗

— George Stevens

#brutality #capable #despise #discover #fierce