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If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn's place right now. She didn't want that sort of existence, but there was something so attractive about the security of feeling like you had stopped moving toward your life, and actually arrived. ↗

— J. Courtney Sullivan

#life #moving-forward #life

I cannot think why we should be astonished at all the evils which exist in the Church, when those who ought to be models on which all may pattern their virtues are annulling the work wrought in the religious Orders by the spirit of the saints of old. ↗

— Teresa of Ávila

#church #evil #life

Loo, life is black and white. You don't know what's good for you, because you don't see the black and white! You don't see where the black lines end and where the white lines begin! You're going to grow up to be no good if you keep on that way. It's impractical. I only have one child, and I won't have her growing up to be impractical. I can't think of a worse thing to be than impractical! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#impractical #life-and-living #saint-paul-trois-châteaux- #life

Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all. ↗

— Herman Melville

#life

I believe that we are all born for greatness yet most of us mire in the mediocrity of life. We become complacent or worse, discouraged and stagnate. We damn ourselves by not progressing. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#greatness #life #progress #life

If a man were to sow a field, he could not excuse his neglect by saying that it would be useless to sow unless God caused the seed to grow. He would not be justified in neglecting tillage because the secret energy of God alone can create a harvest. No one is hindered in the ordinary pursuits of life by the fact that unless the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#providence #life

I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should react." (p.180) ↗

— Jeff Dixon-The Key To The Kingdom

#life-and-living #life-lessons #why #life

There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is. ↗

— Yann Martel

#fight #life

I'm not the elevator to open the door every time you push the button ↗

— T.T.

#love #life

If good stuff happened to us until we died it wouldn't be called Life. It would be called Great. ↗

— Drew

#veins #life