#lor

Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#brothers #cardinals #dear #elected #great

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#dead #experience #exploring #ground #instrument

I saw the excitement, going to different places, being able to explore emotion in a healthy way. ↗

— Corbin Bernsen

#being #different #different places #emotion #excitement

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#again #done #get #god #going

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#inglorious #lowly #mediocrity #perseverance #success

I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for an opportunity to, I suppose, explore uncharted ground. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#characters #choose #explore #feel #fresh

Hi! My little hut Is newly-thatched I see... Blue morning-glories ↗

— Kobayashi Issa

#haiku #morning-glories #beauty

I love you so much, my fingers hurt! ↗

— Heather Dixon

#love

To define is to limit. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#lord-henry-wotton #wilde #wild

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost ↗