#th

Labor omnia vincit! "Labor conquers all things! ↗

— Kristin Chenoweth

#faith

Those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#pessimism #skepticism #faith

My death..I mean..will it be quick,and with dignity? How will i know when the end is coming?" "When you vomit blood,sir," Tao Chi'en said sadly. That happened three weeks later,in the middle of Pacific,in the privacy of the captain's cabin. As soon as he could stand , the old seaman cleaned up the traces of his vomit, rinsed out his mouth , changed his bloody shirt, lighted his pipe, and went to the bow of his ship , where he stood and looked for the last time at the stars winking in a sky of black velvet. Several sailors saw him and waited at a distance, caps in hands. When he had smoked the last of his tobacco, Captain John Sommers put his legs over the rail and noiselessly dropped into the sea. -Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#grief #change

Do not fear death but rather the unlived life. ↗

— jesse Off of tuck everlasting

#tuckdeath #death

... omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori. ↗

— Jerome Groopman

#prognosis #death

I've never seen a hearse pull a U-haul ↗

— Dee Dee M. Scott

#death

It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death. ↗

— Richard K. Morgan

#death

Love them to death. Sookie to Pam ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#death

He asks for your own heart. Give it such as it is ... Are we not aware that everything that is remitted into His divine hands is converted to good? ↗

— St. Francis de Sales

#god #faith

Hannah's faith was the answer to her stress. And, through that faith, she found peace, even though her life remained far from peaceful. Her faith resulted in God working on her behalf. Hannah did not find peace because she left a stressful situation – she found peace because she had learned to depend on God’s strength to rise above her stress. ↗

— Tracie Miles

#faith #god-s-strength #hannah #peace #stress