#ration

Mates such as they must stand by one another ↗

— Mary Grant Bruce

#billabong #friendship #inspirational #love #loyalty

It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#gone-with-the-wind #humor #inspirational #age

As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#faith

The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#christ #deep-love #heart #love #the-love-of-christ

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#thought-provoking #age

I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth. ↗

— Hisham Matar

#intimacy #loneliness #love #love

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, you strive for it, insist up on it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to practice relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a might effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don't, you will leak away your innate contentment. It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing progress, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#inspiration #prayer #inspirational

my child, if you want to have a beautiful and happy life... 2 things you need... learn the art of love and practice it with your beloved one. ↗

— Carlos Barrios

#inspirational #love #sex #art

You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #inspirational #life #success #beauty

I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logic or reasons can be found. ↗

— Sylvia Nasar

#beauty