#akin

I know that compared to industries, corporations, and governments, an individual is insignificant. In measureable terms my actions hardly matter. But feeling tiny does not have to end at why bother. ↗

— Wendy Tremayne

#making-a-difference #motivational #experience

When the time came to leap in faith, whether you had your eyes open or closed or screamed all the way down or not made no practical difference. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#taking-chances #faith

He's a gypsy killer. He has a special gypsy killing knife. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#breaking-up #breakups #broken-heart #broken-hearted #broken-hearted-quotes

God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#god #making-time-for-prayer #time #faith

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#even #first #first step #see #staircase

God thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage. ↗

— Ronald J. Sider

#christianity #god #outrage #poor #prophets

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#abolitionist #ahimsa #animals #education #exploitation

It was like someone had died- like I had died. Because it had been more than just losing the truest of true loves, as if that were not enough to kill anyone. It was also losing a whole future, a whole family- the whole life that I'd chosen...  ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#grief #hurt #upset #family

Oh, got no reason, got not shame Got no family I can blame Just don't let me disappear I'mma tell you everything ↗

— Ryan Tedder

#family

I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you'd give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only. ↗

— Deborah J. Lightfoot

#critical-thinking #decision-making #rational-thought #anger