#scar

If economies collapse and lawlessness rules and resources are scarce, many people who claim with their mouths that they follow Jesus... will abandon him with their lives. ↗

— Brandon Andress

#abandoned #christian #christianity #collapse #economies

Many people feel like they were born into the wrong family. Nevertheless, adults must take responsiblity for the pain of the past and create a productive life in the present. ↗

— James P. Krehbiel

#family #self-help #family

The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#healing #love #miscarriage #solidarity #suffering

If somebody never gets enough of you, they will always want more ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#desire #enigmatic #infatuation #love #relationships

So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#lost-love #love #maturity #yearning #youth

Love is supposed to be scary. If it was easy, everyone would do it. ↗

— Susan Mallery

#love #scary #love

I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!" "Well, I am," said Sal. "So can we go... please? ↗

— Alex Scarrow

#bravery #cowardice #eternal-war #humor #humor

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#rhett-butler-to-scarlett #southerners #yankees #humor

There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction ... ↗

— James Hurst

#hurst #ibis #james #knot #love

In a world turned upside-down, where everything was wrong, bizarre, you could at least look up at the sky and see normality. Stars that shone regardless of who won a civil war, or who should or should not be a president. Their light was billions of years old. They didn't have a care... ↗

— Alex Scarrow

#eternal-war #normality #stars #war #bizarre