#age

This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey) ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#country #finding-yourself #inspiring #journey #literature

It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth. ↗

— Mike Pence

#own #reform #save #scandals #teeth

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#politics #society #courage

Life is brief, young maiden, fall in love; before the crimson bloom fades from your lips, before the tides of passion cool within your hips, for those of you who know no tomorrow. (Gondola no Uta) ↗

— Kouhei Kadono

#girls #growing-up #life #love #women

A tip for increased sales or in situations of life or death: Try to always refer to the lady as Miss. or Ms. Using the term: Ma'am could piss her off. ↗

— Ginnetta Correli

#death #humor #lady #life #woman

He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#answer #answers #dejan-stojanovic #early-age #literature

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. ↗

— William Penn

#before #body #companion #friend #hast

Living a fulfilling relationship requires courage, nakedness and absolute fearlessness. ↗

— Liliane Mavridara

#personal-development #relationships #courage

Faith means that it doesn't matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it right. It means that there will always be a way. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#trust #age

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. ↗

— Walker Percy

#age #because #deranged #doing #faintest