#alms

Sane is boring. ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

#crazy #forgotten-realms #funny #humor #jarlaxle

My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer. ↗

— Psalms

#inspirational #psalms #writer #inspirational

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#battle #conquest #honest #life #living

When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not merely inferior to them in skill but lower in God's eyes; as the priests said, 'All that rabble who are not experts in the Torah are accursed.' and as this pride increases, the 'subject' or study which confers such privilege will grow more and more complicated, the list of things forbidden will increase, till to get through a single day without supposed sin becomes like an elaborate step-dance, and this horrible network breeds self-righteousness in some and haunting anxiety in others. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#reflections-on-the-psalms #religion #self-righteousness #men

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. ↗

— John Russell

#interesting #madness #more #sanity

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. ↗

— Lord Byron

#doubt #much #naught #no doubt #religion

One often calms one's grief by recounting it. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#calms #grief #often #recounting

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#battle #could #david #die #greatest

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be! ↗

— Barry Cornwall

#calms #deepest #fed #gentlest #how

I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness. ↗

— Yani Tseng

#down #even #friendliness #i #like