#iving

She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#living #status-quo #death

Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you live, there’s always something waiting, and even if it’s bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can’t stop living. ↗

— Truman Capote

#death #fate #inspirational #life #living

Dying’s easy. It’s living that’s hard. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#dying #easy #hard #life #living

It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside. ↗

— Colum McCann

#youth-age #age

architecture is a way of life ↗

— Barwa

#life #living #way #architecture

The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#living #art

Part of our skittishness about Christian perfection is linguistic confusion. The English word "perfect" has absorbed the Greek notion of "teleos". When the Greeks looked at a building's blueprint, they pictured the building whole and complete. They envisioned the blueprint finished down to the bathroom tile and announced, "Ah, this is perfect." The problem is that "teleos" suggests that perfection is something we can build or achieve. The Hebrews looked at the same blueprint more practically. They envisioned the process of building from hard hats to hammers, from scaffolding to skylights. "Ah," the Hebrews said. "This is perfect." The Hebrews and the early Christians understood perfection as a process, not a product. Our identity as Christians depends upon life lived in relationship with God, not upon the quality of our achievements. ↗

— Kenda Creasy Dean

#art

• “Don't think too much. You'll create a problem that wasn't even there in the first place.” http://amzn.to/dMBLWW ↗

— Sukhraj Dhillon

#art

If love is like driving a car, then I must be the worst driver in the world. I missed all the signs and ended up lost. ↗

— Brian MacLearn

#life-and-living #lost-love #love-hurts #life

• “Life has no remote. Get up and change it yourself.” http://amzn.to/dMBLWW ↗

— Sukhraj Dhillon

#art