#nit

The first time that I was elected I was called the Judas Iscariot of the black community because I took a stand that was inconsistent of cutting across the grain. ↗

— Tim Scott

#because #black #black community #called #community

Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#helping #humanity #kindness #life #success

I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost. ↗

— Willard Scott

#audition #been #disasters #ever #every

We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

#life #life

Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it’s hard to slow yourself down. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#life #life

When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#bullet #life

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. ↗

— George Eliot

#sanity #life

The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#life

Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#life #man #moment #time #life

God is alive, real, and wants to heal you in every aspect of your life where you are hurting. ↗

— Robert A. Schuller

#god #life