#affirm

One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right. ↗

— Annie Bryant

#children-s-books #children-s-literature #humanity #life-advice #self-assurance

What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve. ↗

— Charles Frazier

#life

Yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes. ↗

— James Joyce

#flowers

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character. ↗

— George W. Bush

#character #civility #commitment #compassion #courage