#vin

If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#leaving #dreams

Life is a test. A test of Character and Strength, experience is our study guide... so remember what you learn and more importantly-apply it. ↗

— Sarah Funkhouser

#experience

Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#crime #entity #findings #having #however

… What about the main thing in life, all its riddles? If you want, I'll spell it out for you right now. Do not pursue what is illusionary -property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade, and is confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life -don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn for happiness; it is, after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. It is enough if you don't freeze in the cold and if thirst and hunger don't claw at your insides. If your back isn't broken, if your feet can walk, if both arms can bend, if both eyes can see, if both ears hear, then whom should you envy? And why? Our envy of others devours us most of all. Rub your eyes and purify your heart -and prize above all else in the world those who love you and who wish you well. Do not hurt them or scold them, and never part from any of them in anger; after all, you simply do not know: it may be your last act before your arrest, and that will be how you are imprinted on their memory. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#anger

Today's Quote: Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ↗

— W.T. Purkiser

#thanksgiving #blessings

Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#gratitude #miracle #thanksgiving #gratitude

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ↗

— W.T. Purkiser

#thanksgiving #gratitude

Orthodoxy is marked by sobriety, not by emotional enthusiasm. It is also marked by a quite “ordinary” persistence in living the humble, consistent life of Christ, not by seeking out extraordinary experiences, especially supernatural ones. ↗

— Andrew Stephen Damick

#christianity #eastern-orthodox-church #orthodox-christianity #orthodoxy #experience

Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#thanksgiving #salvation

I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#fact #films #i #i do #i love