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It seems like our town has closed down these days leading up to the funeral. Old people still sit on their porches and talk, but their conversations aren't sprinkled with laughter anymore. Since the new, little kids haven't played outside, as if their moms are afraid someone might snatch them out of their yards and send them off to war. ↗

— Kimberly Willis Holt

#death #friendship #vietnam-war #age

What Waringa tried hard to avoid was looking at the pictures of the walls and windows of the church. Many of the pictures showed Jesus in the arms of the virgin Mary or on the cross. But others depicted the devil, with two cow-like horns and a tail like a monkey's, raising one leg in a dance of evil, while his angels, armed with burning pitchforks, turned over human beings on a bonfire. The Virgin Mary, Jesus and God's angels were white, like European, but the devil and his angels were black. ↗

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

#point-of-view #inspirational

There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor woman whose husband is not called Ernest. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#inspirational

He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen. ↗

— Bill Scott

#confrontation #constant #elected #elected officials #legislature

But the meaning of these events is not that you are being punished or that someone is to blame, it is that you are living in a world too small, and that you must open up to a larger vision. As the gospel of Thomas says, “If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, it will destroy you.” Look within and Stay Inspired. Derek Rydall ↗

— Derek Rydall

#emergence #law-of-emergence #selfhelp #spirituality #inspirational

I woke up!" he replied, eye twinkling in his haggard face, "and that's reason enough to be happy! ↗

— Ron Hall & Denver Moore

#inspiration #peace #peace-of-mind #inspirational

We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character. ↗

— Luke Scott

#agree #amendment #another #around #character

We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit. ↗

— Pope Theodoros II

#country #egyptian #everyone #give #god

You'll never know what psychopathic heights you're capable of, just lying there on the sofa ↗

— Josh Stern

#humor-inspirational #psycopaths #sofa #inspirational

Violence or Peace...it's up to humanity to pick the road it wants to walk down. The choice is completely ours! ↗

— Timothy Pina

#legend-of-the-peace-panda #inspirational