the-book-diaries:

“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”

— Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
(via the-book-diaries)

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revelation19:

“The thought that Jesus wishes to rule only through his word and Spirit is glorious and beautiful. He despises swords and clubs, chains and prisons, violence and trickery; he only wants to win this rule by the moral, spiritual weapons of word and Spirit.”

Herman Bavinck, The Sermon and the Service.

stockardchanning:

when mitski said “i love everybody because i love you” and additionally when hanya yanagihara said “i try to be kind to everything i see, and in everything i see, i see him” ? felt

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cgcpoems:

“But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it feel this way to you?”

— Kazuo Ishiguro, in his Nobel prize (2017) acceptance speech.   (via halcynth)

(Source: smiththeteacher, via smoke-stungeyes)

violentwavesofemotion:

“I love what is human, what gives softness,”

— Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Henry Miller written c. December 1933

onlinecounsellingcollege:

“I spent my childhood learning how to fear, and now I spend my adulthood learning how not to.”

— Gemma Troy