#ness

Oh, this coming back to an empty house,' Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door. People - though perhaps it was only women - seemed to make so much of it. As if life itself were not as empty as the house one was coming back to. ↗

— Barbara Pym

#life

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#consciousness #elixir-of-life #life #mornings #life

Be kind, be all sympathy, For each and every human being Is forced to fight against himself. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#sympathy #life

You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn’t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#animal-cruelty #animal-kindness #animal-rights #animal-welfare #animals

I don't believe in your "Good". I believe in human kindness. ↗

— Vasily Grossman

#human-kindness #philosophical #ussr #life

If you don't appreciate her, you don't deserve her. ↗

— Robert Tew

#life #life-lessons #life-quote #relationships #woman

We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory. ↗

— Matthieu Ricard

#life #problems #sadness #life

The inner life is bruised by a running against the laws of the Kingdom. The bruises are guilt complexes, a sense of inferiority, of missing the mark, of being out of harmony with God and with oneself, a sense of wrongness. Divine forgiveness wipes out all that sense of inner hurt and condemnation. Brings a sense of at-homeness- at home with God and oneself and with life. The universe opens its arms and takes one in. You are accepted- by God, by yourself, and by life. All self-loathing, self-rejection, all inferiorities drop away. You are a child of God; born from above, you walk the earth, a conqueror, afraid of nothing. Healed at the heart, you can say to life: "Come on, I'm ready for anything. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#forgiveness

Your purpose is your why. ↗

— Deborah Day

#purpose #purpose-in-life #values #life

The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#happiness #hope #sentimentality #wishes #wishing