#it

Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn’t a realistic expectation. ↗

— Lee Ellis

#leadership #military #business

Dr. Murray points to the Nazarite system as what he calls an external scaffolding supporting human efforts at righteousness, reminding the participant that he is set apart. Christ, he said, needed no external reminder that the Father was His joy and that wine was not, that He was Life and was wholly Other from death, that He bore on Himself the shame that long hair but vaguely pointed to. ↗

— David Murray

#religion #ritual #death

The smoke detectors began to ring; for they were battery-powered and thus still functioned, just as a record can still be played after the death of every member of the orchestra. ↗

— William T. Vollmann

#music #time #death

On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it. ↗

— Jean Paul

#church #death #eternity #religion #time

I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike ↗

— Ann M. Martin

#bsc #love

We only have what we give. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#compassion #helping-others #compassion

Love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#love

Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,’ said Frodo, and he lay back in Sam’s gentle arms, closing his eyes, like a child at rest when night-fears are driven away by some loved voice or hand. Sam felt that he could sit like that in endless happiness... ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#hobbits #lord-of-the-rings #middle-earth #sam-gamgee #tolkien

I have not once felt a thing for the male sex, I was only interested in the fairer sex. Mine. ↗

— Novala Takemoto

#lesbian #love #love

Many are hurting for love, while many are suffering from a love that hurts. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#hurt-love #longing-for-love #pain #time #true-love-waits