#livin

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them. ↗

— George Eliot

#living #longing #wish #wishing #beauty

We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God. ↗

— Max Lucado

#christian-life #christian-living #christianity #heaven #beauty

The death rate for people who play it safe and for those who live boldly is the same. ↗

— Patti Digh

#death #living-life-to-the-fullest-bold #playing-it-safe #courage

Don't cohabitate. Don't fornicate. Don't look at pornography. Don't create a standard of beauty. Have your spouse be your standard of beauty. This is one of the great devastating effects of pornography: you lust after people and compare your spouse to them. It's impossible to be satisfied in your marriage if you don't have a standard that is biblical; that standard is always your spouse. ↗

— Mark Driscoll

#beauty

Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#everything #great #how #knees #legs

What’s important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart. Pay no mind to the vision that the commission made up. It’s up to you to make your life. Take what you have and stack it up like a tower of teetering blocks. Build your dream around that. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#goals #life #life-and-living #beauty

You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value."--Nimit in "Thailand ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#dying-well #living-well #beauty

Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#inspirational #living #unhappiness #waiting #inspirational

Don't bite off more than you can chew because nobody looks attractive spitting it back out. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#life-and-living #life-lessons #philisophical #philosophy-of-life #humor

...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths... ↗

— John Geddes

#poetry #reflection #sleep #truth-of-life #truths