#na

Dr. Murray points to the Nazarite system as what he calls an external scaffolding supporting human efforts at righteousness, reminding the participant that he is set apart. Christ, he said, needed no external reminder that the Father was His joy and that wine was not, that He was Life and was wholly Other from death, that He bore on Himself the shame that long hair but vaguely pointed to. ↗

— David Murray

#religion #ritual #death

But this, though: death, the whole of death,-even before life's begun, to hold it all so gently, and be good: this is beyond description! ↗

— Rilke

#death

Being is the greatest paradox of life in front of death. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#death

I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks. ↗

— Paul Rudnick

#grand-canyon #michelangelo #snacks #death

Mars knew that love wasn't all red-paper valentines and candy hearts. Love wasn't always joy. Love could be hot-blooded pain down to the bone. Sometimes love was despair. And sometimes love was wrong. ↗

— Randy Russell

#jana-webster #mars-dreamcote #randy-russell #love

Damn, Lu. When did you get an ass like this? ↗

— Gina L. Maxwell

#gina-l-maxwell #seducing-cinderella #love

In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love. ↗

— Masashi Kishimoto

#love #naruto #peace #war #love

For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool? ↗

— Stendhal

#personality #wisdom #love

Koschei, Koschei,” she whispered. “What would I have been if I had never seen the birds? I am no one; I am nothing. I am a blank paper on which you and your magic wrote a girl. Just the kind of girl you wanted, all hungry and hurt and needing. A machine for loving you. Nothing in me was not made by you. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#marya-morevna #love

Let us be sure that the lady of our choice possesses certain tangible qualities that we admire; and if in other ways she falls short of our ideal, we must be patient and call to mind those qualities that first induced us to begin our courting. ↗

— Lady Murasaki Shikibu

#love #wisdom #inspirational