#ray

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#astray #experience #gone #good #reach

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#answered prayers #more #over #prayers #shed

Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing. ↗

— Frankie Avalon

#bucks #inn #jersey #me #murray

Every morning I was renewed, though. Air and light healed me, over and over. I got to where I depended on it. When I was feeling my worst, I would step out into the yard and put my hands on the branches of the little redbud. It made me feel like I was saying a prayer, to do this. I know that sounds like foolishness, but that little tree was like an altar for me. I stood there in the cold of early winter, wishing for the redbud to bear leaves so that I might put my face against them. ↗

— Silas House

#prayer #trees #nature

You’re the light in all this madness. You’re my light. I should have been with you...” The thought hit him as his face crumpled in amazement. “Oh God, why am I not with you?” “Because you’re an idiot,” I said. ↗

— Karina Halle

#perry-palomino #experience

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#am #answers #apprehend #asked #been

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#prayer #speaking #spirit #truth

Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#betrayed #career #easy #feel #i

It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. ↗

— Edward E. Barnard

#clouds #continents #entirely #erroneous #formed

I love you Perry,” he whispered, mouth moving in my hair. “I love you so fucking much. And I’m losing myself. I’m losing myself to you and I don’t care anymore because there’s never been a better feeling in the whole fucking world. I love you. So much. Too much. Always. ↗

— Karina Halle

#experience