#firm

One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right. ↗

— Annie Bryant

#children-s-books #children-s-literature #humanity #life-advice #self-assurance

What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve. ↗

— Charles Frazier

#life

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes. ↗

— Sallust

#dislikes #firmest #friendship #identity #likes

I don’t want to be an anti, against anybody. I simply want to be the builder of a great affirmation: the affirmation of God,who loves us and who wants to save us. ↗

— Oscar A. Romero

#christianity #god #love #love

You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly - and that is a great thing. Never lose that honesty, Bobby - always be honest with yourself, know your own motives for what they are, good or bad, make your own decisions firmly and justly - and you will be a fine, strong character, of some real use in this muddled world of ours! ↗

— Enid Blyton

#decisions #firm #honesty #judgement #motives

Most of us are not really approaching the subject [scriptures] in order to find out what Christianity says: we are approaching it [them] in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#religion-christianity #social-psychology #religion

Yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes. ↗

— James Joyce

#flowers

I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#reading #reality #escape

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. ↗

— Tacitus

#delay #falsehood #haste #inspection #truth

Boldness in the course of a noble fight is worth the risk...If you stand on truth, you'll only regret your timidity later, but you'll never regret being bold. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#fear #god #standing-firm #faith