#spirt

Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is time. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#force #human-spirt #relentless #faith

Father, forgive them; they don't know what they're doing! ↗

— Anonymous

#forgiveness

And now my past and my future are colliding in a way I never thought possible. ↗

— E.L. James

#inspirtational #life #life

Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward. ↗

— Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

#life

I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet! ↗

— John Green

#inspirtational #life #love #optimism #imagination

Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#love

Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on the road. Henceforth, we will catch only a fleeting glimpse of it -- in the study of sacred writings, in other human beings, in liturgy, and in communion with strangers. But these moments remain us that our fellow men and women are themselves sacred; there is something about them taht is worthy of absolute reverence, is in the last resort mysterious, and we will always elude us. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#men

To be awake is to be alive. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#nature #walden #nature

I want people to come away from my book with questions," she says. "Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#virtue

This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most. I believe you can't feel real joy unless you've felt heartache. You can't have a sense of victory unless you know what it means to fail. You can't know what it's like to feel holy until you know what it's like to feel really fucking evil. And you can't be birthed again until you've died. ↗

— Kelly Cutrone

#life-lessons #change