#ness

It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed. ↗

— P.D. James

#grudge #human-nature #forgiveness

Miss B. says, "It's a mama's faith what keeps her children right. I'm not talkin' 'bout the churchgoin' kind, neither. Miss Mabel's got faith in goodness. Tell me you can't help but believe in it too just by lookin' at her. ↗

— Ami McKay

#faith

The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good. ↗

— Catherine Ponder

#forgiveness #forgiveness

The only way to prevent pride from taking root in our heart and our life is to embrace a life filled with faith, understanding, and forgiveness. ↗

— Heather Bixler

#faith #forgiveness #inspirational-religious #pride #understanding

Focusing on what you don’t want instead of focusing on what do want gets you nowhere. Negativity makes a horrible motivator. Decide what you want and move in that direction. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#focus #happiness #life #success #experience

I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening. ↗

— Tara Brach

#mindfulness #experience

Camus and Henry waved to me from that muddy truck. They both wanted me to get over myself. So, this was me, getting over myself. And it was about time. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#dating #existentialism #glass-girl #henry-whitmire #humanitarian

Polarities of the 'authentic' vs. the 'inauthentic' are easily discernible in recreational modes. The criteria of authenticity are not necessarily objective but rather have to do with the rules by which the self allows or disallows its own experience. ↗

— Walker Percy

#existentialism #experience #genuineness #the-self #experience

Experience teaches that the fire of mental grief is intensified by being confined to its own hearth. ↗

— Fr James Groenings

#grief #loneliness #experience

Theology isn't what drove them to their...theology." author writes on dealing with the embittering experience of those who protect a wounded place with abstract arguments. ↗

— Andy Stanley

#bitterness #theology #experience