#highlight

affliction or grief to the children of men. (Lamentations 3:32-33) God's ↗

— Gerald Bridges

#men

As we ride the elevator Gale finally says “You're still angry.” “And you're still not sorry,” I reply. "I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?” he asks. “No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,” I tell him. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#games

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#winning

I've always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me. ↗

— Rachel Cohn

#appreciation

When you don’t know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious. ↗

— Jason Fried

#decisions

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#life

But Marisa already knew the answer and it was too late for recrimination. The chance of even a rational discussion of the problem was forever shut out of Mama’s brain. A brutal bastard was steadily sucking the intelligence and the very life from the mother who had once been witty, wise and loving. The scourge had a name Marisa had come to equate with hell: Alzheimer’s Disease. ↗

— Anna Jeffrey

#intelligence

God also cheers when we come to him with our wobbling, unsteady prayers. Jesus does not say, “Come to me, all you who have learned how to concentrate in prayer, whose minds no longer wander, and I will give you rest. ↗

— Paul Miller

#life

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#life

It was not a safe thing to lead Joe into temptation; he had no resistance to it at all. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#men