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Most prayers are not really questions...and if we listen very closely, a prayer is often its own answer. ...We pray because we are here - not to change the world, but to change ourselves. Because it is when we change ourselves...that the world is changed. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#religious #change

It's a good thing to see that people can heal after they've been broken, that they can change and become something different from what they were before. ↗

— Wiley Cash

#inspirational #change

Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun. ↗

— Richard Rhodes

#science #family

Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#bogeyman #dragon #dragons #fairy-tales #inspirational

It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is. ↗

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

#human #inspirational #life #living #wisdom

Because sometimes I was tired of feeling so much and I just wanted to shut down and not feel anything. But I guess I wasn't wired that way. All I could do was write about it. Get it out of my head and onto something like paper that I could manage easier. ↗

— Jon Skovron

#inspirational

Sebagian orang berharap dapat menikah dengan laki-laki yang mereka cintai. Doaku sedikit berbeda: Aku dengan rendah hati memohon kepada Tuhan agar aku mencintai laki-laki yang aku nikahi. ↗

— Ikram Abidi

#inspirational

Just because people treat you like shit, just because you may feel like shit sometimes, doesn't mean you are shit. You can make something of your life. You can give of yourself in this world to make it a better place." - Jake quoting his mentor, Arnie Coel ↗

— Lisa Unger

#inspirational

If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#inspirational

Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#inspirational