#life

Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, writers of the world. Make me Muslim, heretic, hermaphrodite. Put me into a crusader's armor, a cardinal's vestments. Let me feel the pygmy's heartbeat, the queen's breast, the torturer's pleasure, the Nile's taste, or the nomad's thirst. Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#life

Just as others pray daily, you should think to yourself daily about what you can do to be closer to this Ideal Image. Think: "What can I do today to make my life better?" "What can I do to become more like my Ideal Image? ↗

— Bucky Sinister

#life

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#evil #life #nature #peace #world

You win over people just like you win over a dog. You see a dog passing down the street with an old bone in his mouth. You don't grab the bone from him and tell him it's not good for him. He'll growl at you. It's the only thing he has. But you throw a big fat lamb chop in front of him, and he's going to drop that bone and pick up the lamb chop, his tail wagging to beat the band. And you've got a friend. Instead of going around grabbing bones from people... I'm going to throw them some lamb chops. Something with real meat and life in it. I'm going to tell them about New Beginnings. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#grace #legalism #life

Wish I might, Wish I may You wish your life away are you pacified? All the wants you waste All the things you chased ↗

— Metallica

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One guy, seeing that I was hungry, insisted on buying me a huge lunch and when I thanked him for his kindness, he simply said, 'Pass it on.' I liked this selfless concept - repay me by rewarding someone else entirely with a generous dollop of goodwill. ↗

— Tony Hawks

#spiritual #life

Above all, consider this: The greatest gift we can give ourselves, our children, and our world is to live well and love well. ↗

— Alexandra Katehakis

#gift #life #love #world #life

You do realize it's all right to have nice things sometimes, right? ↗

— Lev Grossman

#life

Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right. Now if I were not severe towards myself, all I have justly done would become injustice. Should I spare myself more than others? No. What! if I should be prompt only to punish others and not myself, I should be a wretched indeed! - Javert to M. Madeleine ↗

— Victor Hugo

#justice #truth #life

A day of Rest is always needed. ↗

— Solange nicole

#rest #self-improvement #solange #life