#iving

The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip hop. I never used to be into hip hop, but there's hip hop in the food, soul food, there's hip hop in the cars. ↗

— Vanessa Brown

#america #back #being #cars #driving

If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave things as they are. ↗

— J.M.L. Monsabre

#change

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#achievement #amply #enable #enrich #errand

I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#continue #i #life #living #my life

Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#forgiveness #forgiving #giving-up #hearbreak #letting-go

I grew up at 16 years old driving trucks across the George Washington Bridge. ↗

— Don Sherwood

#bridge #driving #george #george washington #grew

To know a species, look at its fears. To know yourself, look at your fears. Fear in itself is not important, but fear stands there and points you in the direction of things that are important. Don't be afraid of your fears, they're not there to scare you; they're there to let you know that something is worth it. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#courage #fear #fears #inspirational-life #inspirational-living

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#life-and-death #living #death

Part of our skittishness about Christian perfection is linguistic confusion. The English word "perfect" has absorbed the Greek notion of "teleos". When the Greeks looked at a building's blueprint, they pictured the building whole and complete. They envisioned the blueprint finished down to the bathroom tile and announced, "Ah, this is perfect." The problem is that "teleos" suggests that perfection is something we can build or achieve. The Hebrews looked at the same blueprint more practically. They envisioned the process of building from hard hats to hammers, from scaffolding to skylights. "Ah," the Hebrews said. "This is perfect." The Hebrews and the early Christians understood perfection as a process, not a product. Our identity as Christians depends upon life lived in relationship with God, not upon the quality of our achievements. ↗

— Kenda Creasy Dean

#art

• “Don't think too much. You'll create a problem that wasn't even there in the first place.” http://amzn.to/dMBLWW ↗

— Sukhraj Dhillon

#art