#ship

More important than starting well in our walk with God is to finish well. ↗

— Victor Manuel Rivera

#freedom #leadership #freedom

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#evil #first-amendment #freedom #freedom-of-speech #hubris

Every right that we enjoy has a corresponding duty to not interfere with the enjoyment of the same right by others. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#leadership #others #freedom

The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is like a yellow hole..." Max, at that moment, knew that only a child could have given him a weather report like that. On the wall, he painted a long, tightly knotted rope with a dripping yellow sun at the end of it, as if you could dive right into it. On the ropy cloud, he drew two figures-a thin girl and a withering Jew-and they were walking, arms balanced, toward that dripping sun. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#friendship #german #jew #sun #friendship

You cannot go and warn him," Saeunn said sternly. "It is too late. You would never find him." "I know," said Renn without turning her head. To herself she added, But I've still got to try. ↗

— Michelle Paver

#friendship #loyalty #friendship

In a world full of cynics, critics, and competitors, we get to choose instead to be cheerleaders for others. ↗

— Shelley Hendrix

#friendship #humility #identity #identity-in-christ #relationships

Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise. ↗

— Gregory David Roberts

#friend #friends #friendship #friendships #trust-friends-betrayal

Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#freedom #life #memory #movement #past

Take a guy who can walk on water, who can raise people from the dead, who can look at you and tell you what you had for breakfast...if a guy like that can't find twelve trustworthy mates, who can? Stop at eleven and call it done, that's the moral of that story. ↗

— Liam Perrin

#friendship #humor #leadership #friendship

Even quilters have cliques! I can't stop picturing Regina George, fifty years later, instructing her minions that 'On Wednesdays, we wear pink. ↗

— Rachel Bertsche

#humor #friendship