#sing

Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him. ↗

— Rosanne Cash

#dad #him #i #my own #out

I wear glasses, have a big scar, I sing loud, and I am blond. I'm sorry! ↗

— Anastacia

#big #blond #glasses #i #i am

You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#alone #books #characters #confusing #described

But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ↗

— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#comfort #fearless #friend #friendship #faith

Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#death

To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality. ↗

— Cliff Shaw

#appear #capable #communication #coordination #devise

You cannot move forward if you are always thinking backwards ↗

— Bathsheba Dailey

#faith #love #missing #faith

Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option. ↗

— Criss Jami

#circumstances #faith #faithfulness #god #imparting

Sleep Red, I've got you." - Vaughn to Faith ↗

— Nalini Singh

#vaughn #vaughn-to-faith #faith

Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#faith