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Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world. ↗

— John Piper

#cross #life

We open the halves of a miracle, and a clotting of acids brims into the starry divisions: creation's original juices, irreducible, changeless, alive: so the freshness lives on ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#life #miracle #life

Get used to it. Life doesn't give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for. ↗

— Diana Palmer

#life-lessons #living #life

I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#life #life

I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive. ↗

— Christine Feehan

#survive #life

Let's die of it before we're too old. ↗

— John le Carré

#life_universe_everything #life

By what you get, you make a living; what you give, however, makes a life ↗

— Arthur Asche

#bio #giving #living #life

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#chivalry #dejan-stojanovic #life #literature #literature-quotes

When the things you love exist only inside your memory they cannot be destroyed or taken from you. ↗

— Marina Tavares Dias

#life-and-living #life-lessons #love #memories #life

A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that isn’t drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing. ↗

— Tom Hodgkinson

#living #life