#iving

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed. ↗

— Ned Vizzini

#living #moving-on #regrets #funny

Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer. ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#funny-but-true #funny

We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget the questions, and we become smug like the Pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues, and thanked God that he was not like other men. Unamuno might be describing the artist as well as the Christian as he writes, "Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#christian-living #doubt #faith #god #suffering

And I would have answered: "The knottier the branch, the more twisted and misshapen, the more bent people called it, the harder it is to find it a place among the smooth planks, the more people agree that it should be thrown on the fire, the more useless it is, the more unsuitable for anything except letting one's imagination run riot, the more I covet it, the more I yearn to weigh it in my hand, the more I long to let my whittling knife be guided by its knots and veins...Yes, bring that piece to me... ↗

— Sjón

#strange #wise #imagination

The harassed look is that of a desperately tired swimmer or runner; yet there is no question of stopping. The creature we are watching will struggle on and on until it drops. Not because it is heroic. It can imagine no alternative. Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young-man - all present still, preserved as fossils, dead. Their message to this live dying creature is: Look at us - we have died -what is there to be afraid of? It answers them: But it happened so gradually, so easily. I am afraid of being rushed. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

#living #imagination

Our life is a blank book and we are the authors......... Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it ↗

— Jason Calder

#imagination

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#christian-living #christianity #gift #god #inspirational

The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone. ↗

— Rumi

#living #inspirational

A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'... ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#friendship

I swear, the best things come to me by accident! Or should I say, effortless destiny? ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#destiny #effortless-destiny #inspirational-destiny #inspirational-living #inspirational-quotes