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The way to be happy is to take pleasure in what you do and how you do it, not in imagining that happiness is some place at the end of the road. ↗

— Toby Reynolds

#imagination

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition. ↗

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

#better #container #destroys #does #else

Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed. ↗

— Brian Rathbone

#life #magic #mystery #philosophy #life

You're so young... Are you sure that's what you want your life to be, forever and ever? That job? That career? That girlfriend? ↗

— Peter Cameron

#peter-cameron #life

All of creation suffers, young ones. Only in accepting our own mortality can we make a difference. Only in bearing the burden of our failures can we find the strength to go on. Only in detachment from glory, or honour, or jealousy... from life itself can we hope to spare others from grief. We are Doom Eagles. And we are dead already. -- Librarian Secundus Thryn of the Doom Eagles ↗

— Simon Spurrier

#jealousy

The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the Church into the dimension of the Kingdom. We use the word 'dimension' because it seems the best way to indicate the manner of our sacramental entrance into the risen life of Christ. Color transparencies 'come alive' when viewed in three dimensions instead of two. The presence of the added dimension allows us to see much better the actual reality of what has been photographed. In very much the same way, though of course any analogy is condemned to fail, our entrance into the presence of Christ is an entrance into a fourth dimension which allows us to see the ultimate reality of life. It is not an escape from the world, rather it is the arrival at a vantage point from which we can see more deeply into the reality of the world. ↗

— Alexander Schmemann

#eucharist #kingdom-of-god #reality #sacrament #truth

I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page forever. ↗

— R.J. Dennis

#writing #writing-life #life

I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#psychology #society #life

The unreality of the past weeks lifted like a fog, but its residue remained. All of the past is like that, but most especially the parts that are out of the ordinary. ↗

— Madeline Claire Franklin

#life #memory #the-poppet-and-the-lune #time #life

My life was a wandering; I never had a homeland. It was a matter of being constantly tossed about, without rest; nowhere and never did I find a home. ↗

— Jan Amos Komenský

#homelessness #life