“the most dangerous distractions are the ones
that you love but that don’t love you back.”
- Warren Buffett
sibbes.
“there is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.”
- Richard Sibbes
kahan.
“if i was an empty space
and you were a formless shape
we’d fit.”
- Noah Kahan
erwitt.
“all the technique in the world
doesn’t compensate for the
inability to notice.”
- Elliot Erwitt
saint-exupéry.
“if you want to build a ship, don’t drum up
the men to gather wood, divide the work,
and give orders. instead, teach them to long
for the endless immensity of the sea.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
lewis.
“God can't give us peace and happiness apart
from Himself because there is no such thing.”
- C.S. Lewis
willard.
“reality does not adjust itself
to accommodate our false beliefs,
errors, or hesitations in action.”
- Dallas Willard
lewis.
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
- C.S. Lewis
doty.
“in still life, there is no end
to our looking. we look in
and in… as long as we can
stand and look, as long as
we take pleasure in looking.”
- Mark Doty
eliot.
“human kind cannot bear
very much reality.”
- T.S. Eliot
nouwen.
“the temptation is to go mad with
those who are mad and to go around
yelling and screaming, telling everyone
where to go, what to do, and how to
behave. the temptation is to become so
involved in the agonies and ecstasies of
the last days that we will drown together
with those we are trying to save.”
- Henri Nouwen
theophan.
“to pray is to descend with the mind
into the heart, and there to stand before
the face of the Lord, ever-present,
all-seeing, within you.”
- Theophan the Recluse
novo amor.
“i can't seem to let myself leave you
but i can't breathe anymore
i can't seem to not need to need you
and i can't breathe anymore”
- Novo Amor
rokowski.
“nothing ever ends poetically.
it ends and we turn it into poetry.
all that blood was never once beautiful;
it was just red”
- Kait Rokowski
leav.
“i write not to be known
but to know myself”
- Lang Leav
diego.
“but then again, awards don’t
mean anything in the end.
the ultimate award is probably
how people perceive your life story
after you’ve taken your final breath.”
- Haraldur Diego
kichloo.
“what a marvelous feeling it would be, if we could say
exactly how we felt. what a monumental victory.
what a terrifying thought.”
- Akif Kichloo
baldwin.
“i imagine one of the reasons people cling to their
hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate
is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
- James Baldwin
brooks.
“it seems a mystery that Beethoven became more
original and brilliant as a composer in inverse
proportion to his ability to hear his own —
and others’ — music. but maybe it isn’t so
surprising. as his hearing deteriorated, he
was less influenced by the prevailing
compositional fashions, and more by the musical
structures forming inside his own head…
deafness freed Beethoven as a composer because
he no longer had society’s soundtrack in his ears.”
- Arthur Brooks
rahner.
“in the torment of the insufficiency of everything
attainable, we come to realize that, in this life, all
symphonies must remain unfinished.”
- Karl Rahner