#kin

Mama says it’s just her nature. Some people are flowers, and some are thorns. ↗

— Jennifer Archer

#nature

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. ↗

— George Eliot

#morality #experience

He knew that any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things. One could open a book to any page, or look at a person's hand; one could turn a card, or watch the flight of birds... whatever the thing observed, one could find a connection with his experience of the moment. Actually, it wasn't that those things, in themselves, revaled anything at all; it was just that people, looking at what was ocurring around them, could find a means of penetration to the Soul of the World. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#looking #revelation #experience

We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves if they wanted to: they lack words. We have already grown beyond whatever we have words for. In all talking there lies a grain of contempt. Speech, it seems, was devised only for the average medium, communicable. The speaker has already vulgarized himself by speaking. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#speaking #speech #words #communication

Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#kindness #truth #faith

Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT." Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#death #drinking #humor #death

I go to seek a Great Perhaps. ↗

— François Rabelais

#french-renaissance-writer #john-green #last-words #life #looking-for-alaska

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#rational #religion #thinking #death

When the time came to leap in faith, whether you had your eyes open or closed or screamed all the way down or not made no practical difference. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#taking-chances #faith

God thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage. ↗

— Ronald J. Sider

#christianity #god #outrage #poor #prophets