#ration

You told me, if something is not used it is meaningless, and took my temperature, which I had thought to save for a more difficult day. In the mirror, every night, the same face, a bit more threadbare, a dress worn too long. The moon was out in the cold, along with the restless, dissatisfied wind that seemed to change the location of the sycamores. I expected reproaches because I had mentioned the word love, but you only accused me of stealing your pencil, and sadness disappeared with sense. You made a ceremony out of holding your head in your hands because, you said, it could not be contained in itself. ↗

— Rosmarie Waldrop

#desperation #love #change

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

Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured...Spend your free the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. ↗

— Susan Cain

#introverts #susan-cain #inspirational

It’s a world worth fighting for. Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#inspiration #life #poetic-fiction #inspirational