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You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#rules-of-life #winning #life

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christ #christianity #francis-of-assisi #jesus-shock

Solamente lo eterno de nosotros puede reconocer la temporalidad de lo temporal ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#life

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them? ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#morals #life

Do you want to be happy? Then make your life as soulfully simple As sleeplessly breathing. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#simplicity #life

I ... having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I, like a child, not understanding them, destroy them -- that is, I wish to destroy that by which I live. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life

Il zapacise pur si simplu multimea aceea nespus de pestrita, de parca diavolul faramase lumea bucati si le adunase apoi la loc, fara niciun sens, fara niciun rost. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#life #n-v-gogol #nevski-prospekt #world #life

I like spending all my time making things with my hands. Mostly I make love to myself. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#masturbation #life

I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance – You oh God – towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matter. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#sin #wickedness #life

Love is like Atlantis, OK? And I’m just a humble scuba diver searching for treasure that I can exchange for sexual favors. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#love #sex #treasure #life