#ought

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#again #done #get #god #going

I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one! ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#back #bikini #get #had #i

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. ↗

— Annie Besant

#brought #ever #glad #good #good news

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most. ↗

— Annie Besant

#christian #church #despise #evil #greatest

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts. ↗

— Paul Valery

#his #infinitely #man #more #than

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them. ↗

— Carl Barks

#cynicism #did #get #had #hell

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought. ↗

— Matsuo Basho

#footsteps #men #old #seek #sought

I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life. ↗

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

#going #i #life #my life #rest

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous. ↗

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

#about #became #charlie #famous #feeling

I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#came #could #culture #dancing #different