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He gathered me closer, kissed my neck, then spoke in a low voice next to my ear. “I figure, see, if you find yourself getting more attached to the two of us than you planned, maybe you won’t think about picking up and leaving to start another life somewhere else. ↗

— Jenn Bennett

#lon #life

I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre ↗

— Halen Hayes

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To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism. ↗

— Shunryu Suzuki

#life-philosophy #phlilosophy #zen-buddhism #life

Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory. ↗

— John Green

#wish #world #life

you're like a dictionary, you add meaning to my life ↗

— Shannon Dermott

#incubus #succubus-on-top #life

For introverts, who have limited energy for interaction, we need to be more thoughtful and deliberate about whom we meet—which, happily, is what we do best. ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

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It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one. ↗

— Andre Gide

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I knew it,’ she says. ‘I knew I had met you before. I knew it the first time I saw your photograph. It’s as if we had to meet again at some point in this life. I talked to my friends about it, but they thought I was crazy, that thousands of people must say the same thing about thousands of other people every day. I thought they must be right, but life… life brought you to me. You came to find me, didn’t you? ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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God does not demand that every man attain to what is theoretically highest and best. It is better to be a good street sweeper than a bad writer, better to be a good bartender than a bad doctor, and the repentant thief who died with Jesus on Calvary was far more perfect than the holy ones who had Him nailed to the cross. And yet, abstractly speaking, what is more holy than the priesthood and less holy than the state of a criminal? The dying thief had, perhaps, disobeyed the will of God in many things: but in the most important event of his life He listened and obeyed. The Pharisees had kept the law to the letter and had spent their lives in the pursuit of a most scrupulous perfection. But they were so intent upon perfection as an abstraction that when God manifested His will and His perfection in a concrete and definite way they had no choice but to reject it. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#repentance #life

Connecting with those you know love, like and appreciate you restores the spirit and give you energy to keep moving forward in this life. ↗

— Deborah Day

#connections #encouragement #life #love #restoration