#old

Go make your mark on the world. Be a world changer! Live bold for Christ no matter the cost. ↗

— Crystal Woodman Miller

#challenge #christ #hope #inspirational #world-changer

Tell you what." I closed the blade with a satisfying snick. "Remember that time you tried to kill me because I wouldn't open a gate to hell?" "The memory's a bit fuzzy..." I opened the knife again. "Yes, now that you mention it, I do recall something like that happening, although my motivation was certainly never to kill you. Can't you view it as me inspiring you to figure out how to use the Paths? I didn't actually want you to die. ↗

— Kiersten White

#evie #holding-hands-with-boys #jack #inspirational

Make it bigger, make it badder, make it awesome! ↗

— Duff Goldman

#badder #bigger #duff-goldman #inspirational #inspirational

I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction? ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#commander #leadership #military #mood #narcissism

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#acted #awoke #behold #dreamt #i

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. ↗

— Colum McCann

#literature #untold-stories #life

I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#hold #hug #parent #picoult #life

Golden retrievers are not bred to be guard dogs, and considering the size of their hearts and their irrepressible joy in life, they are less likely to bite than to bark, less likely to bark than to lick a hand in greeting. In spite of their size, they think they are lap dogs, and in spite of being dogs, they think they are also human, and nearly every human they meet is judged to have the potential to be a boon companion who might, at many moment, cry, "Let's go!" and lead them on a great adventure. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#golden-retrievers #life

He tilted his head to the side, still watching me in that same, disconcerting way. “Some things are true, drunk or sober. You should know that. You deal in facts all the time.” “Yeah, but this isn’t—” I couldn’t argue with him looking at me like that. “I have to go. Wait… you didn’t take the cross.” I held it out to him. He shook his head. “Keep it. I think I’ve got something else to help center my life. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#richelle-mead #sydney-sage #the-golden-lily #life

I know it's not thematically in tune with my new job and all, but I find it effective. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I say. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. I live by it. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #terry-pratchett #life