#pi

You own everything that happend to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better. -- Anne Lamott ↗

— Doreen Carvajal

#inspirational #inspirational

There is a trick to flying. The angels told me." He had smiled at my wide-eyed awe. "You need to forget everything you know as a human being. When you are human, you discover that there is great power in hating the earth. And it can almost make you fly. But it never will." I had frowned, not quite understanding him. "So, what's the trick?" "Love the sky. ↗

— Anne Fortier

#hope #inspirational #inspirational

terkadang keadaan membuat cinta terasa amat menyakitkan, akan tetapi kesejatian cinta tidak akan pernah berakhir manakala pengorbanan cinta itulah yang menjadi pemeran utamanya. cinta tidak akan pernah salah. cinta tidak mengenal batas. untuk cinta yang bertepuk sebelah tangan sekalipun. ↗

— Dee

#inspirational

When Stephen King elaborated on his inspirations for his novel "Carrie" he draws from a time when he was a young man, and describes his impression when he came upon a statue of Christ on the cross, hanging there in misery, and he thought "If THAT guy ever came back, he probably wouldn't be in a saving mood." ↗

— Stephen King

#horror-writer #writing-inspiration #inspirational

Your nature is not the problem. The problem is that you have become alienated from your nature -- from your power source. ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

#inspirational #inspirational

You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past. ↗

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

#wisdom-inspirational #inspirational

Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow of the blood in our veins. A living God must be served in a living way. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#service #serving #inspirational

Despair is for people who know, beyond any doubt, what the future is going to bring. Nobody is in that position. So despair is not only a kind of sin, theologically, but also a simple mistake, because nobody actually knows. In that sense there is always hope. ↗

— Patrick Curry

#hope #inspirational #inspirational

Any rapist would feel pretty dang upset to see his car packed full with rotting fish heads and limburger cheese...Also, if the 542 women responsible were crowded onto the street where he lived, insisting that he move himself and his stinky car to another locale. Nobody likes to be pelted with 2060 bloody tampons. ↗

— Inga Muscio

#inspirational #rape #society #women #inspirational

The gods of the realms are many and varied -- or they are the many and varied names and identities tagged onto the same being. I know not -- and care not -- which. ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

#gods #inspirational #religion #inspirational