#ola

My burden is my purpose. Without it, I wouldn't be. ↗

— Solange nicole

#determination #life-experience #overcoming #solange #experience

It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without a name, and a horse with no experience of a bit between its teeth. My mother taught me to gentle it; gave me the discipline and love to break it; and- as Alexander had known so intuitively with Bucephalus- she understood, and taught me, that the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun. ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#manic-depression #experience

I am nothing special; of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts, and I've lead a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#nicholas-sparks #life

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship. ↗

— Anthony Anderson

#high #high school #howard #i #performing

We must be careful more than ever what we let our hearts believe in. ↗

— Solange nicole

#deception #faith #life-lessons #solange #faith

Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this program called CJSF, California Junior Scholarship Foundation. We were involved in soup kitchens and toy drives, and your school can set up something like that. If your school doesn't have a program like that, set one up. ↗

— Lindsey Shaw

#called #charity #drives #eighth #eighth grade

Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#heaven #faith

I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there are no boundaries and no permanently fixed views.” Lurie, if the Torah cannot go out into your world of scholarship and return stronger, then we are all fools and charlatans. I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#torah #truth #faith

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee. ↗

— John Donne

#connectedness #for-whom-the-bell-tolls #inspirational #interdependence #isolation

Idolatry, then, is always polytheism, an aimless passing from one lord to another. Idolatry does not offer a journey but rather a plethora of paths leading nowhere and forming a vast labyrinth. ↗

— Pope Francis

#idolatry #polytheism #faith