#pta

Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.) ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#librarians

Trying to eliminate worldly temptations only makes our spiritual growth limited. ↗

— Toba Beta

#versus #wordly-temptation #spiritual-growth

I still remember her meandering Mississippi kiss. I sipped it like a riverboat captain in the desert. Ah, to be young and naughtily nautical.   ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#kiss #mississippi #naughty #nautical #riverboat-captain

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#always #mistake #rarely #unacceptable

It is midnight in the hard part of town. The mask is itching like it always does. The ragged end of my cape is soaking in a puddle of something I don't want to guess about. I'm crouched behind a kicked-in aluminum trash can. It stinks of rotted meat and drunkard's piss - and I feel right at home. (from Nothing to Lose) ↗

— Steve Vernon

#nothing-to-lose #home

Hope is a fire more ravenous than the flames of temptation. For if only a portion of it poisons your veins, it is enough to make you stand against ridiculous odds again and again and again. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#desire #hope #richelle #richelle-goodrich #temptation

The things about others that irritate, annoy, and unsettle us are the very things we have not accepted and embraced about ourselves ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#acceptance-of-others #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#buddhism #dark-night-of-the-soul #enlightenment #love #meditation

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#goodness #inspiration #love #yourself #inspirational

I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it. ↗