#mer

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#boomerang #cause #circle #effect #gossip

I regard myself as the most wretched of all men, stinking and covered with sores, and as one who has committed all sorts of crimes against his King. Overcome by remorse, I confess all my wickedness to Him, ask His pardon and abandon myself entirely to Him to do with as He will. But this King, filled with goodness and mercy, far from chastising me, lovingly embraces me, makes me eat at His table, serves me with His own hands, gives me the keys of His treasures and treats me as His favorite. He talks with me and is delighted with me in a thousand and one ways; He forgives me and relieves me of my principle bad habits without talking about them; I beg Him to make me according to His heart and always the more weak and despicable I see myself to be, the more beloved I am of God. ↗

— Brother Lawrence

#humility #love #mercy #forgiveness

I’ll never forgive myself if I don’t ask this, but knowing everything that you know, do you still want that kiss? ↗

— Daniele Lanzarotta

#mermaid #new-adult-contemporary-romance #forgiveness

My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#grace #mercy #forgiveness

The mercy of forgiveness is brought from the strength to accept any situation given and faced. Spiritual independence and humbleness toward life makes life like a flowing river of release. What happens will happen anyways, and everybody can make mistakes. The important thing is to learn how to make a better future from the mistake. ↗

— Hiroko Sakai

#inspiring #learning #life #life-lessons #mercy

We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people... ↗

— T. Rafael Cimino

#greed #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #political-commentary #political-philosophy

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#harm #kindness #mercy #smile #smiling

Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill. ↗

— Harper Lee

#inspirational #landscape #mockingbird #scout #season

We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a human cardiovascular system, look at corals or trees and look at our lungs, you literally cannot tell the difference. They’re the same. So when we destroy our environment, we’re effectively destroying ourselves. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#ian-somerhalder #inspiring #thoughtful #inspirational

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#jealousy #malcontents #merely #success is #thermometer