#life

Let me just say, we call Iraq the abnormal normal, 'cause over there the weirdest stuff is just everyday life. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#life

...God is not exempt from emotional pain...One the contrary, God's pain is as infinite as His love. ↗

— Terryl L. Givens

#spirituality #life

The deaf who deny they are deaf will never hear; the sinners who deny there is sin deny thereby the remedy of sin, and thus cut themselves off forever from Him Who came to redeem. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#redemption #salvation #sin #the-cross #life

On that trip I learnt something very important. Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed." (The Beach) ↗

— Alex Garland

#travel #life

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#motherhood #life

You see, unlearning is a very important process towards becoming enlightened, because in this life you will have learned wrong ways and those wrong ways that you have learned are barriers blocking you from becoming who you really are, therefore it is vital that they are unlearned. ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

#learning #wisdom #life

A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially. ↗

— Eric Maisel

#writing-life #life

The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning. ↗

— Peter Høeg

#belief #bridges #certainty #fear #life

Distance and antiquity (the emphases of space and time) pull on our hearts. If we are already sobered by the thought that men lived two thousand five hundred years ago, how could we not be moved to know that they made verses, were spectators of the world, that they sheltered in light, lasting words something of their ponderous, fleeting life, words that fulfill a long destiny? ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#time #life

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#humanity #life