#om

Severing our young and fragile friendship was a sad ordeal, but sadder still was the fact that this friend found it so difficult to respond to my immediate need, unlike a dreamed boy who always afforded me easy comfort. I couldn’t understand what was so hard about reaching out to hug someone. But judging by Gregory’s uncomfortable conduct I had to assume it was an honest trial. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#friendship #goodbye #imaginary-friend #kindness #need

I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man. ↗

— Gretchen Wilson

#been #even #had #her #i

There hadn’t been one specific moment. It was like gradually waking up. You go from being asleep to the space between dreaming and awake and then into consciousness. It’s a slow process, but when you’re awake, there’s no mistaking it. There was no mistaking that it had been love. ↗

— Jenny Han

#love #moment #slow-process #truth #waking-up

لم تكن أنت، لم أكن أنا... في عالمٍ غير العالم، قبل أن تتردَّد أنت، وقبل أن أستيقظ أنا... ↗

— إيناس حليم

#romantic #dreams

It's just the end of some things. And the beginning of others. ↗

— Lisa McMann

#sad #undercover-lovers #dreams

Hell had frozen over and I was lost in its endless labyrinth. ↗

— Cameo Renae

#supernatural #thriller #young-adult #dreams

Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader can do in front of his people is murmur and complain. ↗

— Kevin DeYoung

#leadership #leadership

For all it's problems and difficulties, life is mostly a wonderful experience, and it is up to each person to make the most of each day. I hope you are successful in your life, but look to the heavens and the earth and especially to other people to find your real wealth. Wherever I am, wherever you go, know that my love goes with you. ↗

— Elizabeth Berg

#world-war- #dreams

Yesterday's faults become today's lessons. Today's dreams become tomorrow's reality. ↗

— B.J. Neblett

#faults #lessons #reality #today #tomorrow

If we only had eyes to see and ears to hear and wits to understand, we would know that the Kingdom of God in the sense of holiness, goodness, beauty is as close as breathing and is crying out to born both within ourselves and within the world; we would know that the Kingdom of God is what we all of us hunger for above all other things even when we don’t know its name or realize that it’s what we’re starving to death for. The Kingdom of God is where our best dreams come from and our truest prayers. We glimpse it at those moments when we find ourselves being better than we are and wiser than we know. We catch sight of it when at some moment of crisis a strength seems to come to us that is greater than our own strength. The Kingdom of God is where we belong. It is home, and whether we realize it or not, I think we are all of us homesick for it. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#beauty