#try

She wisely reasoned that my chosen husband was no ordinary man, that his whole life was absolutely dedicated to God and His service, ad that I must never, never hinder him by trying to put myself first in his heart. ↗

— Susannah Spurgeon

#wife #life

Her head titled to the side and her eyebrows crept up her face. It was her uh-durrr face, she was just too kind to actually say it to me. ↗

— H.M. Ward

#humor #katie #mari #trystan-scott #life

I came to you tardy and late as I usually do to the better things in my life ↗

— Christy Brown

#life

I have lost my smile, but don't worry. The dandelion has it. ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#poetry #smile #life

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man. ↗

— Alan Paton

#humanity #inhumanity #life #man #only

...before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ... ↗

— John Geddes

#keepsakes #life #memories #moments #poetry

make this day a tree leaning over the river eternity and fuss about in its branches. ↗

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

#poetry #life

sometimes I hear screaming like a child and wake up to find it’s me ↗

— Stephen Fitzsimons

#modern-life #poetry #poetry-quotes #life

Emotion is the poetry of life. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#life #poetry #life

My heart in the East But the rest of me far in the West— How can I savor this life, even taste what I eat? How, in the bonds of the Moor, Zion chained to the Cross, Can I do what I’ve vowed to and must? Gladly I’d leave All the best of grand Spain For one glimpse of the ruined Shrine’s dust. ↗

— Yehuda Halevi

#life