#sons

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. ↗

— Simone Weil

#anything #because #being #concluding #contrary

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#am #deeply #fond #i #i am

She didn’t need hope anymore because she knew the things you wanted weren’t necessarily the things that you needed. She knew that the things that were meant to be just happened. You couldn’t control them like she once thought. ↗

— Holly Hood

#love #perfectly-hopeless #life

No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons. ↗

— Jerry Weller

#funding #instead #more #prisons #sentencing

Families homeschool for different reasons, in unique situations, using a variety of methods. ↗

— Lisa Whelchel

#different reasons #families #methods #reasons #situations

The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall. ↗

— George Whitefield

#angels #christ #desire #fall #first

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? ↗

— Walt Whitman

#against #aside #disputed #great #learned

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#behind #bigots #fools #front #go

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#lessons #many #prison #things #will

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging. ↗

— Dar Williams

#lessons #life #packaging #ridiculous #sent