Joe Red Night

[exquisite-grandeur]

“The faith waiting in the heart of a seed promises a miracle of life which it cannot prove at once.”

— Rabindranath Tagore (via kamala-laxman)

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“Do not lose heart in coming for pardon, for I am always ready to forgive you.”

— Jesus to St. Faustina (via faustinarockandroll)

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“There are many books which are excellently bound, but there is nothing within them; and there are many persons that have a very fine spiritual exterior, but there is nothing whatsoever in the heart.”

— Charles Spurgeon (via ecmshock)

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“The struggle is the sign of holiness. A saint is a sinner that keeps trying.”

— St. Josemaria Escriva (via ecmshock)

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“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”

— William Shakespeare (Trinculo), The Tempest (via greatliteraryquotations)

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“The weeds grow so thick You cannot even see the path That leads to my house: It happened while I waited For someone who would not come.”

— Sojo Henjo (Kokinshu)

[christadelphians]

To have been mistaken

To have been mistaken

“” Life means making mistakes. Being perfect means you have often been mistaken. ” John Henry Newman

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[exquisite-grandeur]

“Mundus vulti decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire.”

— Walter Kaufmann (via inthenoosphere)

[exquisite-grandeur]

“If goodbye was the answer the question is, shouldn’t it be easier than this?”

— Shouldn’t It Be Easier Than This, Recorded by Charley Pride (via exquisite-grandeur)

[feral-ballad]

“…I cried. The crying of something leaving a body.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch, from The Chronology of Water: A Memoir

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[tesserariuss]

“People like you and me are quite lonely really but we still have each other, we have the secret satisfaction of being different, of rebelling, of desiring the unusual.”

— Hermann Hesse, Demian

[exquisite-grandeur]

“It never ceased to amaze me, until suddenly one day I felt beautiful and holy for having had the courage to hang on to my sanity after all I’d seen and been through, body and soul, in too loud a solitude, and slowly I came to the realization that my work was hurtling me headlong into an infinite field of omnipotence.”

— Too Loud a Solitude, Bohumil Hrabal (via postlapsarian-rot)

[howifeltabouthim]

“Well, I’ll keep my eyes wide for roses in the snow.”

— Tanith Lee, from Red as Blood: Tales of the Sisters Grimmer (via howifeltabouthim)

[artsytoad]

Jim Warren, Living on the Edge

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[exquisite-grandeur]

“If you’ve seen a rose bud unkissed by the dew…”

— A Picture of Me Without You, recorded by Vern Gosdin and others

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