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People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to say it with a sense of discovery, and it worries me. ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#discovery

Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#miracles #superstition #witchcraft #atheist

(Jace) "Is there anything special you want to see? Paris? Budapest? The Leaning Tower of Pisa?" Only if it falls on Sebastian's head, she thought. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #jace #lol #sebastian #paris

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#self-awareness #self-discovery #discovery

It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#discovery

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#discovery

You find out who you are by figuring out who and what you're not ↗

— Kelly Cutrone

#discovery

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future. ↗

— Deborah Harkness

#discovery

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#cross-bearing #mercy #trials #horses

My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that she and my father bathed me in sugar for three days to wash it off. I try to behave, but I always go back to the vinegar. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#scorpio-races #water-horses #young-adult-fiction #horses