#provoking

For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; but in the end she is as bitter as wormword, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death, her steps lay hold of hell ↗

— Justin Cronin

#morality #religious #sin #thought-provoking #death

Stay true to the dreams of thy youth. ↗

— Friedrich von Schiller

#thought-provoking #dreams

Knowledge is what enables one to be wrong. (p. 11) ↗

— Mike Higton

#education

When we are babies...we need an authoritative figure to guide and take care of us. We ask no questions about that authority and imagine that the small circumference of family life is the limit of the universe...As we mature, our horizon expands and we begin to question. This continues until we either throw over our creators--our parents--for good and take their place as the creative force in our lives or find replacements for them because the terror and responsibility are too great. People go one way or the other, and this accounts for all of the great personal and political divides throughout history. ↗

— Charlotte Rogan

#family

As long as there's life, there's hope. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#life #thought-provoking #life

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#insight #life #life-lessons #living #motivation

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#thought-provoking #motivational

I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#nature

Religion would have us believe that immortality is reserved for the gods. We remain skeptical. ↗

— Fiona Paul

#thought-provoking #religion

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#christian #christianity #god #one-christ-one-church #religion