#rational

I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. As a lily among brambles, so is my love among maidens. As an apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. -Song of Solomon 2: 1-4 ↗

— Anonymous

#love #inspirational

More and more I am learning that I am a guest of God in this world and how I treat everything is how I treat God. ↗

— Mazhar Malloughi

#inspirational

Living life ONCE is enough...if you live life RIGHT. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#church #inspirational #leadership #motivational #pastors

The wise man will follow a star, low and large and fierce in the heavens, but the nearer he comes to it the smaller and smaller it will grow, till he finds it the humble lantern over some little inn or stable. Not till we know the high things shall we know how lovely they are. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#religious #inspirational

Everything in this world was so new, so wonderful and strange--like things in my old world, but better []For sixteen years my soul had been drawn towards this place, this alien homeland, toward its rainbow sunrises and whispering trees" Breena Bitter Frost (on the brink of discovery; about why she never quite felt like she belonged in the land over the Crystal River) ↗

— Kailin Gow

#self-discovery #inspirational

you are searching everywhere you want the sun find your home between your eyes ↗

— Žiga Stanovnik

#home #inspirational #life #phylosiphical #inspirational

Everyone whirled around her, entranced by the stories in which they recognized themselves, but in the stories they were also more than themselves and it always felt at the end fulfilled, not meaningless and empty like life can sometimes feel. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#writing #inspirational

He sighed. 'Your life is your own,Miss Kingston. We have only one. Don't allow anyone else to dictate to you what you should do with yours.' She blinked and frowned as if she didn't understand what he meant. 'It's yours,' he advised softly. 'Don't waste it on petty conventions or conformity. Swim against the tide if you want to. ↗

— Val Wood

#life #inspirational

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try. ↗

— Brigitte Trinkle

#motivational #self-help #inspirational

You know what's given me the greatest pleasure in my life? It's been our bungalow, the normalcy of it, the ordinariness of my waking, Almaz rattling in the kitchen, my work, my classes, my rounds with the senior students. Seeing you and Shiva at dinner, then going to sleep with my wife...I want my days to be that way. ↗

— Abraham Verghese

#inspirational