#v

When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#creates #greater #pain #try #you

She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind? ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#dreaming #dreams #fairy-tales #inkheart #inspirational

Men are highly attracted to smiles. That includes your husband. ↗

— Debi Pearl

#men

Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach God's Word without an agony of anxiety lest the people will not accept Christ; whenever a day comes when I can see men and women coming down the aisles without joy in my heart, I'll quit preaching. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#salvation #men

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#evil #fiction #grace #on-fiction #storytelling

But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#vanity #men

A (wo)men travels the world over in search of wht (s)he needs and returns home to find it ↗

— Barbara Magro

#travel #world #men

I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#i #i do #important #live #living

Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ↗

— Jean Genet

#handsome #jean-genet #thief #men

This was no peck on the lips. This was a real first kiss, a movie-star-knock-her-socks-off-fireworks-light-up-the-sky kind of kiss. A girl could live to be a hundred and never forget that kiss. ↗

— Carol Fragale Brill

#love #romance #women-s-lit #love