#alam

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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.


Ralph Waldo Emerson


#causation #cause-and-effect #chance #darwinism #inspirational

My God", he whispered. What have I done to her? He thought, humbled. The spell was broken, but it wasn't sealed, and her soul was bare to him, the scars of her tragic past and her triumphs over pain and her aching need to find her place. He just wanted to hold her to him and tell her it would be okay, that she had survived and was beautiful.


Kim Harrison


#perfect #rachel #teaser #trent-kalamack #beauty

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.


William Davenant


#glass #know #ourselves #perfect #see

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.


Harry Emerson Fosdick


#calamity #characteristics #courage #faces #grow

These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.


Frederick Leboyer


#calamity #gesture #hands #head #implore

He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.


Philip Massinger


#boldly #calamity #dares #die #valiant

I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.


Charlotte Brontë


#miss-marchmont #selfish #suffering #villette #nature

Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.


Tom Robbins


#desire #dreams #fulfillment #dreams

Alamo has been a strong inspiration for nations striving for freedom all around the globe since 1836. Gvozdansko has not earned public reputation, but profoundly touched the heart of the bitter enemy Ferhat-paša alone in 1578. Croats have a duty and obligation to learn about Gvozdansko.


Vinko Vrbanic


#battle #ferhat-pasa #freedom #gvozdansko #ottoman

Rachel knew what she was doing. And when she didn't, she could improvise on the fly, coming up with options that left a lot of collateral damage but usually only hurt herself, not the people around her. It was one of the things he would never admit that he admired about her.


Kim Harrison


#into-the-woods #jenks #paranormal #rachel-morgan #romance