#pose

The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album. ↗

— Marc Almond

#before #cell #come #gone #i

I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. ↗

— Summer Altice

#i #play #short #supposed #too

To make a difference is just... I think... the purpose of what life is. ↗

— Anastacia

#i #i think #just #life #make

Truth demands progress and change, and is always for the benefit of all souls—even if you must travel through a difficult learning process or make a shift as a result of facing the truth. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#change #god #golden-rule #honor #inspiration

I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in ming that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow. ↗

— Marian Anderson

#bear #behind #easier #follow #i

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#purpose #raw-materia #writing #art

This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#i #i think #letter #movement #necessarily

But there was a special kind of gift that came with embracing the chaos, even if I cursed most of the way. I'm convinced that, when everything is wiped blank, it's life 's way of forcing you to become acquainted with and aware of who you are now, who you can become. What is the fulfillment of your soul? ↗

— Jennifer DeLucy

#crisis #encouragement #hard-times #identity #inspirational

Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the children and the household. Accordingly, no one notices this faith of Jacob. Indeed, many hate fertility in a wife for the sole reason that the offspring must be supported and brought up. For this is what they commonly say: ‘Why should I marry a wife when I am a pauper and a beggar? I would rather bear the burden of poverty alone and not load myself with misery and want.’ But this blame is unjustly fastened on marriage and fruitfulness. Indeed, you are indicting your unbelief by distrusting God’s goodness, and you are bringing greater misery upon yourself by disparaging God’s blessing. For if you had trust in God’s grace and promises, you would undoubtedly be supported. But because you do not hope in the Lord, you will never prosper. ↗

— Martin Luther

#faith #god #marriage #money #parenthood

There is always a TRUTH to be revealed in any situation where your emotions have shifted. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#inspiration #inspirational-quotes #joy #life-purpose #love