#eli

Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I then returned to the chair to continue my divine act of creation. Hot blood swished in my head as my mighty pen stole across the page. ↗

— Roman Payne

#artists #artists-life #coffee #creation #creativity

And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#loneliness #universe #inspirational

I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All. ↗

— Plotinus

#inspirational #last-words #religion #inspirational

Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#belongs #country #developing #era #iraq

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#boxes #computers #magical #people #tell

I think we are and will always be lonely people in a lonely world under lonely stars. We can never starve our loneliness. We can only hope that by the company of others, it doesn't devour us. ↗

— Christopher Poindexter

#hope #loneliness #love #universe #friendship

A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#inspirational #religion #inspirational

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels. ↗

— Elizabeth Berg

#inspirational #weight-loss #inspirational

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#atheist #faith #god #religion #death

Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit. ↗

— Andy Stanley

#god #inspirational #reliance #inspirational