#k

The stories she'd read of others' lives over these last few months had left her with a greater appreciation for the thread of her own life. ↗

— Masha Hamilton

#life

Now I'm all messed up sick inside wondering who's life your making worth while. ↗

— Sara Quin

#heartthrob #makeup #messedup #now-im-all-messed-up #sara-quin

Now that he's gone, I feel like I'm a senior citizen who gave away her life savings over the phone. And this is the crux: I never in my life believed in someone as much as I believed in him. The shame is overwhelming. ↗

— Emma Forrest

#love-loss #pain #life

I am grateful for the rare opportunities to look at my circumstances from a higher perspective, one detached from the dim outlook I normally insist on seeing. These periodic glimpses show me life's grandeur. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#life #outlook #perspective #richelle #richelle-goodrich

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#baby #childe #cynic #cynicism #enemy

oaking” seems like a crazy word in an intimacy book. Yet that is exactly what you want to do in your relational time with Him, you want to “soak in and soak up” His presence, “soak in and soak up” His love. Soaking is positioning yourself before God for the sole purpose of experiencing His presence and His love for you. ↗

— Linda Boone

#intimacy #real-love #soaking #life

Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#love #life

I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#group #i #i think #microsoft #operating

We drink one another's health and spoil our own. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#drink #health #our #own #spoil

A brick could be used to motivate. Just hold it up as an example of something that’s going nowhere in life.

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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #life