Watch The Sun

literature/personal words

[thestrangesun-blog]

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Benjamin Franklin

[thestrangesun-blog]

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

[thestrangesun-blog]

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

Julius Caesar

[thestrangesun-blog]

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Dr. Seuss

[thestrangesun-blog]

To become new men means losing what we now call ‘ourselves’. Out of our selves, into Christ, we must go. His will is to become ours and we are to think His thoughts, to ‘have the mind of Christ’ as the Bible says. And if Christ is one, and if He is thus to be ‘in’ us all, shall we not be exactly the same? It certainly sounds like it; but in fact it is not so.

C.S. Lewis - Mere Christianity

[thestrangesun-blog]

Forgiveness is the only way to drain the poison out.

Rachel Wolchin

[thestrangesun-blog]

I am the gatekeeper to my own destiny and I will have my glory day in the hot sun.

Ignacio, Nacho Libre

[thestrangesun-blog]

It's better to have nobody than to have someone who is half there, or doesn't want to be there.

Angelina Jolie

[ichi-nichi-nikki]

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

C.S. Lewis

[thestrangesun-blog]

True, I talk of dreams. Which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

Romeo & Juliet, William Shakespeare

[alexwonderland]

Have a mouth as sharp as a dagger, but a heart as soft as tofu.

Chinese Proverb

[thestrangesun-blog]

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it — to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood 

[thestrangesun-blog]

Then a I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, “The salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the ruling authority b of his Christ, c have now come, because the accuser of our brothers and sisters, d the one who accuses them day and night e before our God, has been thrown down. But a they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives b so much that they were afraid to die. Therefore you heavens rejoice, and all who reside in them! But a woe to the earth and the sea because the devil has come down to you! He b is filled with terrible anger, for he knows that he only has a little time."

Revelation 12:10-12

[thestrangesun-blog]

Relationships are worth fighting for. But not if you’re the only one fighting.

Anonymous

[thestrangesun-blog]

People will hate you, rate you, shake you, and break you, but how strong you stand is what makes you.

Unknown

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"Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea."

Fyodor Dostoevsky 

[thestrangesun-blog]

This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby