#eli

I love you, Roza." He kissed me again. "I'll always be here for you. I'm not going to let anything happen to you." The words were wonderful and dangerous. He shouldn't have said anything like that to me. He shouldn't have been promising he'd protect me, not when he was supposed to dedicate his life to protecting Moroi like Lissa. I couldn't be first in his heart, just like he couldn't be first in mine. That was why I shouldn't have said what I said next-but I did anyway. "And I won't let anything happen to you," I promised. "I love you." He kissed me again, swallowing off any other words I might have added. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose-hathaway #life

Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#disability #disappointment #emptiness #feelings #fulfillment

The call to the creative life is a call to dignity, to a life of vulnerability and adventure and the call to a life that exquisite excitement and indeed ecstasy will often visit. ↗

— John O'Donohue

#religion #spirituality #life

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it. ↗

— Jane Austen

#loneliness #world #life

I love everything about the world: how this life goes, GOOD & WRONG... I believe in things that you may nOt understand, I may cry but am nOt afraid!!! ↗

— Ashley M. Fierro

#life #life

Judaism teaches us the sentence, “The Lord is One,” is not exclusive to Adonai, but rather inclusive of everything, everything, everything! Did you get that? Everything is One. This means far more than the teaching we are all connected. That teaching could be speaking biologically, or even atomically. I am talking about more than even the microscopic connection we all share. More than our DNA. ↗

— Laura Weakley

#inspirational-religious #jewishness #judaism #torah #inspirational

Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one--that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#christianity #life #needs #nourishment #nurturing

The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning. ↗

— Peter Høeg

#belief #bridges #certainty #fear #life

There are certain moments in life of open-minded people... which really make them hard not to believe in the existence of heaven. ↗

— Toba Beta

#heaven #open-minded #life

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. - Abraham Lincoln ↗

— Bruce Weinstein

#life