#mira

...Opal is dead, and I don't see how a healer can change that! It's not something to joke about." Joke?" Then Owen hit his forehead and cried, "That's right, you haven't heard!" Heard what?" asked Adrien, who felt an insane glimmer of hope return to his heart. Death is on strike! She hasn't done that for two centuries, and it's very annoying. Your friend is alive." Very annoying?" repeated Amber. "I don't see what's so annoying about a miracle! What is Death on strike for?" Everyone knows that Death lives in Fairytale-in an inaccessible area, obviously. And just a few hours ago, she decided to stop working. So, for now, no one can die. ↗

— Flavia Bujor

#fantasy #humor #miracle #change

Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle. ↗

— Gabriel Bá

#life-and-death #meaning-of-life #miracle #death

Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#belief #faith #lack-of-faith #miracles #quotes

god, can you imagine getting married at nineteen?" miranda asked. "when i was nineteen i didnt even know how to do my own laundry." she added, for david's beneit, "you know, laundry? washing your own clothes? there are people who do that." he rolled his eyes. "i know how to do laundry. i watched my wife do it dozens of times. ↗

— Dianne Sylvan

#miranda #imagination

... y con ningua otra he hablado nunca sobre todo lo imaginable con mayor intensidad y, por tanto, disposición para comprender y, por tanto, he podido pensar con mayor intensidad y disposición para comprender sobre todo lo imaginable, y nadie me ha dejado nunca mirar nunca dentro de sí más profundamente y a nadie he dejado mirar nunca dentro de mí más profunda y desconsideradamente y cada vez más desconsiderada y profundamente. ↗

— Thomas Bernhard

#mirar #imagination

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. ↗

— Haim Ginott

#expected #goals #impossible #inadequate #miracle

Tell God how you feel, and don't be afraid to ask for a miracle. ↗

— Shirley Corder

#inspirational #miracle #inspirational

Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamoured, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of utter inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realised that there was, after all, something god-like about him. He could control a horse. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#hero-worship #horses #love #riding #superiority

Atheism Is Rare ?! so is intelligence ↗

— Sherif Gaber

#atheist #intelligence #rare #yamirasu #intelligence

When someone I admire turns out to be a rather normal guy, I get offended because it’s an insult to my jealousy. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#insult #jealousy #jealousy