#ability

Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it? ↗

— Andy Couturier

#environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability #money

Some girls have to go to college to discover what they are good at; some are born doing what they must without even truly knowing why. I felt a hole in my heart shaped like a dark door I needed to guard. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#self-discovery #self-knowledge #self-knowledge

Love is a sacrificial item ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#acceptance #forgiveness #love #unconditional #forgiveness

In the privacy of my dreams, I'm a warrior. ↗

— Kimberly Derting

#fantasy #kings #queens #rulers #social-class

Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#almighty #god #likelihood #might #omnipotence

Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#aristocracy #birthright #meritocracy #nobility #talent

The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#about #also #create #essential #great

This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#love #sex #love

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#convert #ideas #outward #secret #success

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability. ↗

— Hans Bender

#forms #free #new #open #probability