"People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage. The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience. The lady that only read books that improved her mind was taking a safe course—and a hopeless one. She’ll never know whether her mind is improved or not, but should she ever, by some mistake, read a great novel, she’ll know mighty well that something is happening to her."
— Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose (with thanks to settledthingsstrange and habitofbeing)
(via pocketpetals)
"If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it."
— C.S Lewis (via keep-it-rural)
(Source: narnia--freak, via themysteriousinfj)
"Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive."
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (via katisque)
(Source: arpeggia, via mary-poppins-needs-a-tardis)
"Don’t worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth."
— Dorothy Day (via saintdorothyday)
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"Out of doubt, out of dark to the day’s rising
I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing.
To hope’s end I rode and to heart’s breaking:
Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall! "
— J.R.R. Tolkien
"But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them."
— J.R.R. Tolkien
"In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory."
— J.R.R. Tolkien
"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."
— J.R.R. Tolkien
"The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.
But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now
mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater."
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
this-is-radiant-joy:
catholicgeek:
Let’s do this.
FILL HEAVEN UP WITH TUMBLR CATHOLICS. WE PARTY LIKE NO ONE ELSE.
Things are about to get dark. We need each other. Bring it.
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