#ring

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours. ↗

— James Taylor

#becomes #boring #controls #filling #hours

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#bloom #bring #conceive #eternal #express

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#cannot #comes #desire #entry #everyone

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring. ↗

— Bayard Taylor

#daring #loving #most #tender

I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture. ↗

— Rod Taylor

#down #good #good picture #i #much

We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#contemporary #english #epic #epic poem #feel

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers. ↗

— Edwin Way Teale

#few #how #millions #nameless #numbers

The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom. ↗

— Randall Terry

#area #blessing #brings #every #freedom

I have amply provided for my son during my lifetime. ↗

— William S. Hart

#during #i #lifetime #provided #son

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice. ↗

— Paul Harvey

#dead #just #practice #practicing #retiring