#log

There's nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society. ↗

— Manny Rayner

#sociology #irony

What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#hope #resurrection #optimism

If the crow has to be shoved down your throat; maybe you should just let it fly. ↗

— Colette Ruland Parrino

#karma #sorry #karma

When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you! ↗

— Susan Forward

#deceit #infidelity #liar #lies #pathological-liars

The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief. ↗

— Russell Brand

#amy-winehouse #blog #addiction

Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total. ↗

— Alistair Begg

#god #help #prayer #theology #faith

I run to run." ~ Sam ↗

— Tijan

#logan-cade #mason-kade #mason-sam #sam

His fingers painted my skin with ruby red patterns of desire. In Keahi’s kiss I could taste the red burn of chili encrusted in the rich sweetness of melted chocolate. I breathed in his scent and it spoke to me of vanilla. The ink of my malu tattoo began to burn, searing markings of fiery joy. ↗

— Lani Wendt Young

#fiction #mythology #samoa #telesa-series #young-adult-book

Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#mythology

We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself. ↗

— Farley Mowat

#wolves #mythology