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#raise

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I want to fill a jar with a lot of clapping, and sell my applause next to the applesauce in a grocery store. You can eat the praise you didn’t earn, but did pay for. ↗


— Jarod Kintz


#earn #funny #praise #funny

Etiquette was so confounding in this country. Still, looking at Mirabella-her fists balled together like small, white porcupines, her brows knitted in animal confusion-I felt a throb of compassion. How can people live like they do? I wondered. Then I congragulated myself. This was a Stage 3 thought. ↗


— Karen Russell


#karen-russell #st-lucys-home #home

Could we betray our parents by going back to them? ↗


— Karen Russell


#karen-russell #st-lucys-home #home

She was still loping around on all fours, her fists blue-white from the strain. As if she were holding a secret tight to the ground. Sister Maria de la Guardia would sigh every time she saw her. "Caramba!" She'd sit down with Mirabella and pry her fingers apart. "You see?" she'd say softly, again and again. "What are you holding on to? Nothing, little one. Nothing. ↗


— Karen Russell


#karen-russell #st-lucys-home #home

He’s an indulgent sort of man…… With a quick lip and a fierce tongue, the sort of tongue that draws you in with charm and words of praise, awkward silences and desperate worships. ↗


— Coco J. Ginger


#charm #fierce-tongue #friendship-and-love #jamie-weise #love

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons. ↗


— Diana Wynne Jones


#praise #right #inspirational

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans. ↗


— Friedrich Schiller


#clamor #difficult #discriminate #heated #partisans

How we choose to swim out of the Parana pools in life is an art all in itself. "Some of us succeed but the inner child remains crippled which deafens remnant consciousness. This entangles the soul and choices for survival become evident as greed's appetite enlarges. Innocence is discarded and hope loses her voice ↗


— drchoneydew


#drchoneydew #raised-eyes #art

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11). ↗


— Randy Alcorn


#bonus #christianity #corinthians #excess #giving

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. ↗


— Friedrich Nietzsche


#cannot #god #i #praised #time






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