Vengeance is not the point change is. But the trouble is that in most people’s minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide (Barbara Deming)
Our decisions define our lives. We are the people we choose to be in the ways that most matter. Choose wisely. You will live with the choices you make.The choices you make define your character. And your character defines how you feel about yourself. That image of you is projected in hundreds of ways to others
Our decisions define our lives. We are the people we choose to be in the ways that most matter. Choose wisely. You will live with the choices you make.The choices you make define your character. And your character defines how you feel about yourself. That image of you is projected in hundreds of ways to others (Vicki Hinze)
Without pain, how could we know joy?’ This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate
Without pain, how could we know joy?’ This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate (John Green, The Fault in Our Stars)
You will have the last word.’ ‘Your name will be that word
You will have the last word.’ ‘Your name will be that word (Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena)
When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn’t about remembering jokes. It was about creating them
When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn’t about remembering jokes. It was about creating them (Paul Merton)
An attitude is much deeper than just our emotions or the thoughts we think. It’s a decision we make based on our core beliefs and values
An attitude is much deeper than just our emotions or the thoughts we think. It’s a decision we make based on our core beliefs and values (Toni Sorenson, Aligned By Christ)
I couldn’t escape the hell I was in; the push pull between hot & cold. Neither was better, just two extremes of the same pain
I couldn’t escape the hell I was in; the push pull between hot & cold. Neither was better, just two extremes of the same pain (Samantha Summers, Becoming)
Even if readers claim that they ‘take it all with a grain of salt’, they do not really. They yearn to believe, and they believe, because believing is easier than disbelieving, and because anything which is written down is likely to be ‘true in a way’
Even if readers claim that they ‘take it all with a grain of salt’, they do not really. They yearn to believe, and they believe, because believing is easier than disbelieving, and because anything which is written down is likely to be ‘true in a way’ (Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea)
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo (George Bernard Shaw)
There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa
There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa (Carol Alt)