#there

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real? ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#need

It wouldn't bother me in the least if all the dogs in the world weere placed in a large sack and taken to some distant island - Greenland springs attractively to mind - where they could romp around and sniff each other's anuses to their hearts' content and would never bother or terrorize me again. The only kind of dog I would excuse from this roundup is poodles. Poodles I would shoot. To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. They are harmless, they look nice, they don't need a box to crap in, they keep the grass down, and they are so trusting and stupid that you can't help but lose your heart to them. Where I live in Yorkshire, there's a herd of cows down the lane. You can stand by the wall at any hour of the day or night, and after a minute the cows will all waddle over and stand with you, much too stupid to know what to do next, but happy just to be with you. They will stand there all day, as far as I can tell, possibly till the end of time. They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in return. They will be your friends forever. And when you get tired of the, you can kill them and eat them. Perfect. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#love

We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny. ↗

— Alfred Rosenberg

#destiny #great #heavy #therefore

Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#inspirational #inspirational

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. ↗

— Max Frisch

#ending #life #meaning #precisely #proper

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. ↗

— Citium Zeno

#evil #honorable #therefore

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#cannot #cognitive #contain #element #mental

I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them. ↗

— Roland Allen

#attempt #belief #believe #converts #divine

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value. ↗

— Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

#any #cannot #certain #change #criticism

Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown. ↗

— Thomas Becket

#christ #crown #effort #ever #faith