#my

Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him. ↗

— Rosanne Cash

#dad #him #i #my own #out

Mr. Gweta looked ten years younger than Professor Khupe had expected. His jet-black hair was trimmed so neatly that it would make a manicured golf course look scruffy. His face was exceptionally smooth, giving the impression that he had been born without skin pores and transitioned through puberty devoid of any facial hair to pockmark his countenance. Mr. Gweta’s face was perfectly symmetrical. An ant walking from one side to the other would experience a serious case of déjà vu. ↗

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#flame-lily #great-zimbabwe #hangman #mystrey #parnormal

If you claim to be a real friend then be real in your soul. If you claim to be fake then be an enemy instead. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#friendship #love #friendship

No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith. ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

#faith #magic #mystery #world #faith

Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#enemy #fear #god

You've got to take it on faith that the enemy of your enemy is your friend. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#vampire-academy #faith

Friend, I am not suggesting at all. You see, I know now. Let us be frank. Our opinions were not honestly come by. We simply found ourselves in contact with a certain current of ideas and plunged into it because it seemed modern and successful. At College, you know, we just started automatically writing the kind of essays that got good marks and saying the kind of things that won applause. When, in our whole lives, did we honestly face, in solitude, the one question on which all turned: whether after all the Supernatural might not in fact occur? When did we put up one moment's real resistance to the loss of our faith? ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#education #intellectual-honesty #education

I had a standing arrangement with God: I'd agree to believe in Him -barely- as long as He let me sleep in on Sundays. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#god #vampire #vampire-academy #faith

The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the “sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew.” I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being. ↗

— David James Duncan

#mysticism #religion #religious-freedom #spirituality #faith

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#mysticism #poetry #reason #serenity #faith