#ow

He wasn’t a hero. He wasn’t the man who stepped forward and saved the innocent. He was lost himself. Shadows had invaded a long time ago and stolen his life. But he would give anything he had left to be the man who found a way to save Judith ↗

— Christine Feehan

#shadows #life

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#eternal-life #fire #god #joy #peace

The site of hearing was now known to be in the cochlea. ↗

— Robert Barany

#known #now #site

I will never take what is never given, but I will receive to what is given. ↗

— Michael Jones

#michael-jones #poetry #poetry-life #poetry-quotes #life

By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions. ↗

— D.K. LeVick

#childhood-memories #growing-up #life #philosophy #understanding

The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers and the Fathers of the church, knowing meant something different: it meant knowing in wonder. By knowing or perceiving one participates in the life of the other. Here knowing does not transform the counterpart into the property of the knower; the knower does not appropriate what he knows. On the contrary, he is transformed through sympathy, becoming a participant in what he perceives. ↗

— Jürgen Moltmann

#knowledge #life

The people feel and look the same, like they've settled here even though they know there's something more-something better-just beyond where they are. Small-town life. ↗

— Courtney Summers

#courtney-summers #fall-for-anything #life #small-town #life

Life is not worth living unless you live it for the One who gave you life. ↗

— Anya vonderLuft

#life

We grow the aspects of our lives that we feed – with energy and engagement – and choke off those we deprive of fuel. Your life is what you agree to attend to. ↗

— Jim Loehr

#life #life

Hand, nobody told me about the weight. Why didn't our parents tell us about the weight? —What weight? —The fucking weight, Hand. How does the woman Ingres live? The one from Marrakesh? If we're vessels, and we are, then we, you and I, are overfull, and that means she's at the bottom of a deep cold lake. How can she stand the hissing of all that water? —We are not vessels; we are missiles. —We're static and we're empty. We are overfull and leaden. —We are airtight and we are missiles and all-powerful. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#life #maturity #life