#ily

Church and family are both primary influences designed by God for a purpose and when they work together, they are orange. Both are systems comprised of imperfect people—that’s why God desires to use them as a platform to tell his story of restoration and redemption to the world. ↗

— Reggie Joiner

#family #design

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#mysteries #necessarily

You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily. ↗

— Sergei Bubka

#hard #hours #lot #need #practicing

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

#also #comedy #drama #good #necessarily

sticks and stones might break your bones, but cement pays homage to tradition. ↗

— Estelle Getty

#humor #italian #patrillo #sicily #sophia

Why else do we write and write except to move our readers? ↗

— Jerome Charyn

#historical-fiction #novel #life

And they...LIVED! Life isn't always ‘Happily Ever After’, rather, loving FOREVER, regardless. ↗

— Carmen DeSousa

#forever #happily-ever-after #life #novel #life

Despite his elegant appearance, Mr. Gweta’s most striking asset was his alluring personality. Professor Khupe had met few such men in his life. Their warmth made everyone feel like they were their best friend. They were good men. However, they tended to be morally ambidextrous. If a stranger confessed to having been involved in a horrible crime, they would reserve judgment until they found out whether the confessor was the victim or victimizer. Once they knew, they would immediately lend their sympathies to the confessor’s position. Their worldview was simple. They supported the first person to confide in them. Such men made good lawyers. ↗

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#flame-lily #great-zimbabwe #hangman #mystrey #parnormal

The difference between Marilyn’s and Jayne’s approach to intellectual pursuits is that Marilyn carried big heavy books around and hung out with brainy people to absorb their intellect, while Jayne really had a thirst for knowledge. Jayne was very proud of the fact that if she like something enough she would commit it to memory. At that time, The Satanic Bible was still in monograph form, and Jayne had pored over those pages until she knew most of it by heart...Marilyn gave me a copy of Stendhal’s On Love, and I still have a copy of Walter Benton’s This is My Beloved, which we bought together on Sunset Boulevard. Marilyn turned me on to it—wanted me to read it and write something in it for her. I got as far as writing her name in it, but I ended up with the book. It meant a lot to me during a particularly dark period in my life after I left L.A. Jayne kept insisting I read The Story of O and I, Jan Cremer. She gave me a dog-eared copy of each. It seems a distinctly feminine trait to want to share books with people they care deeply about. ↗

— Anton Szandor LaVey

#jan-cremer #jayne-mansfield #marilyn-monroe #on-love #pauline-réage

I wished for you on every shooting star when I was little. Now, if I gathered all of the stars I wished for you on, none could ever shine brighter than you. You are my shooting star, Ren. You are here with me walking this beach. I may have fucked up, but I swear to you, to God, and every single star in this sky, I will never give you up!” Stefan ↗

— Mel Ballew

#romance-love #romance-novels #suspense #love