#low

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#fruit #late #soon #too #too late

It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#fellowship-of-the-ring #j-r-r-tolkien #the-lord-of-the-rings #the-shire #life

When you are near the middle of your life, often God will do outrageous things to knock you back on course. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#life-missions #promptings #signs #whispers #life

The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent. ↗

— Christy Romano

#agent #allowed #change #cool #disney

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#lyrics #song-lyrics #lyrics

Now, it is of course well known that Christ continually uses the expression 'imitators.' He never says that he asks for admirers, adoring admirers, adherents; and when he uses the expression 'follower' he always explains it in such a way that one perceives that 'imitators' is meant by it, that is not adherents of a teaching but imitators of a life.... ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#christ #christianity #follower #imitation #imitator

There just isn’t enough cock in this world to be caught suckin’ and be called anything but a slut for life. The cynic in me would call it a bad habit, but that’d make me a whore in denial and if there’s one thing I am, it’s an honest bitch. Then again, you don’t get famous for being daddy’s little angel, but you can easily fall into the Infamy Bracket by preaching a made-up Bible quote now and again. They say I’m shallow, but I’ve made a living out off diving off the deep end. ↗

— Dave Matthes

#cock #cynical #deep-end #denial #famous

In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives. ↗

— Hal Borland

#nature #plants #life

Basic Principles: 1. Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy. 2. There is an underlying, in-dwelling creative force infusing all of life -- including ourselves. 3. When we open ourselves to our creativity, we open ourselves to the creator's creativity within us and our lives. 4. We are, ourselves, creations. And we, in turn, are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. 5. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God. 6. The refusal to be creative is self-will and is counter to our true nature. 7. When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good orderly direction. 8. As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected. 9. It is safe to open ourselves up to greater and greater creativity. 10. Our creative dreams and yearnings come from a divine source. As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#divine #dreams #flow #god #yearnings

Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel. ↗

— Marlene Van Niekerk

#shallow-beauty #beauty