#tho

A path full of potholes must be traveled slowly, but there's no reason you can't finish the journey. ↗

— Faydra D. Fields

#food

The Catholic wisdom of the people... provides reasons for joy and humor even in the midst of a very hard life. ↗

— The Catholic Church

#humor #joy #piety #life

Jesus--if Kilgore Trout could only write!" Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout's unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#thought-experiments #writing-craft #experience

Faith doesn't mean credulity; it means that the certainty remains about something which is not our actual present experience of things. ↗

— Metropolitan Anthony Bloom

#faith #orthodoxy #experience

Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost. ↗

— Richard von Krafft-Ebing

#gender #homosexuality #lesbianism #morality #nature

In my brain were stored a thousand pictures. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#life-of-the-mind #thoughts #life

The debt we owe our parents can never be squared, and jolly good too, because doing so would threaten to nullify all relationship, all emotional commerce between the two generations. Being in debt, just like being in credit, means an active interest applies between the two parties and, once the debt is taken care of, the interest is bound to wane. ↗

— Robert Rowland Smith

#family-relationships #parenthood #family

The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do. ↗

— Elizabeth Scott

#book-quote #break #feelings #grace-novel #life

If you have to tell them you are, you're usually not. It usually speaks for itself. ↗

— Faydra D. Fields

#food

Life's adventures make great reading! ↗

— Denise Robbins

#books #denise-robbins #read #writing #life