#y

Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in language or music. And with the sight... ↗

— Charles de Lint

#into-the-green #beauty

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play. ↗

— Dizzy Gillespie

#life #me #my life #play #taken

God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God. ↗

— John Piper

#worship #beauty

I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary. ↗

— David Zucker

#dumb #dumber #funny #guys #i

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#i #missed #world #would

Love is when you’d rather see someone one last time and die, than never see their face again. ↗

— Bryan Butvidas

#fantasy-fiction #fantasy-romance #romance #death

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#could #human #human problem #i #people

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#goes #great #great writer #hustler #loud

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one. ↗

— William Goldman

#humor #luck #education

In the end when God does speak, it is not the pious friends who are commended. God tells then they have been guilty of misrepresenting God. Only Job – only angry, defiant, doubting Job has been faithful. The story of Job reminds us that God is not offended when we question. Indeed, if anything God is offended when we speak too glibly. Make room in your heart for the angry, defiant and doubting questions. You may find God there as well. ↗

— Peggy Haymes

#faith #job #suffering #tragedy #faith