#ding

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#check #earned #got #home #i

They're book addicts. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#humor #reading #humor

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it). ↗

— Alain de Botton

#buildings #museums #architecture

So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of sharing it with parents amounts to covering up a land mine on a busy street. ↗

— Jim Trelease

#reading #television #business

One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions. ↗

— Jim Palmer

#god #shedding-religion #spirituality #freedom

You haven’t prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art ↗

— LaMar Boschman

#worship #worship-leading #art

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#deconstruction #influence #understanding #writing #communication

Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul. ↗

— Aneta Cruz

#reading #words-of-wisdom #writing #imagination

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read. ↗

— Jincy Willett

#reading #writing-books

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#learn