#though

Every man needs his Siren To check his courage and strength When he hears her song In his travels through the unknown. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #poetry #poetry-quotes

You told me to tell the truth, and this is exactly why I didn’t want to. You want me to think I’m selfish.” “I want you to own your thoughts and actions, and not be afraid of them. Accepting your limitations is every bit as important as embracing your strengths. ↗

— Dawn Jayne

#courage #thoughts-and-actions #courage

So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from. ↗

— Slash

#aerosmith #black #black sabbath #came #cheap

How ironic, she thought, as she fell to her certain death, that at that moment she would have given anything to be a giant goose again. ↗

— Michael Buckley

#last-thoughts #death

On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#death #death-of-a-friend #death-of-a-loved-one #life-and-death #death

Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is intellectual death. ↗

— Confucius

#intellectual #learning #thought #death

If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to redeem us, He showed us in fact that suffering and pain have great power. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#cross #death #death-and-dying #god #good-friday

Nobody wants to believe that existence carries on without at least taking a stumble from their departure of this world. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#dying #gavin #life #philosophy #thoughts

Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves. ↗

— Francis Bond Head

#arrived #burst #clearly #darkness #had

Strangely enough, I don't seem to tolerate food in great quantities or when it is too rich anymore.” “That's perfectly all right. Most people dig their graves with their own teeth as it is. ↗

— Andrew Ashling

#food-for-thought #healthy-diet #life-and-eating #truth #diet