"Suffering did different things to different people...Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection to God."

-- Naomi Ragen

#People Quotes #Soul Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal stage for the Romantic individual to exercise the cult that he frequently made of his own soul. The solitude and total freedom of the wilderness created a perfect setting for either melancholy or exultation.”

Source : Roderick Nash (2001). “Wilderness and the American Mind”, p.47, Yale University Press
“Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.”
“The key to most difficulties does not lie in the dilemmas themselves, but in our relationship to them.”
“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.”
“Every morning I am a beginner.”
“In addition to writing in received forms, I have also had fun making up forms - MÃ¶bius strips and visual poems, particularly.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I am ten different kinds of badass now! [Alucard Hellsing]”
“I have an AIDS ribbon tattooed on my arm.”

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