#ah

Leaders are not known by their positions; they are known by their roles in those position. You have many gifts as a leader, but your dominant gift is what you will use to lead. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#dominant #dominant-gift #dominate #dominion #food-for-thought

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#life #politics #religion #science #life

By the way, when Oprah Winfrey is suggesting you may have overextended yourself, you need to examine your fucking life. ↗

— Tina Fey

#oprah #life

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#crazy #crazy-people #phoenix #stupid #stupid-people

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#satyagraha #life

Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#life #mellow #sarah-dessen #life

All that is left to bring you pain, are the memories. If you face those, you’ll be free. You can’t spend the rest of your life hiding from yourself; always afraid that your memories will incapacitate you, and they will if you continue to bury them. ↗

— J.D. Stroube

#bury #free #hide #incapacitate #memories

Would 'sorry' have made any difference? Does it ever? It's just a word. One word against a thousand actions. ↗

— Sarah Ockler

#bittersweet #regrets #sarah-ockler #sorry #action

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#disappointment #fear-of-commitment #love #relationships #risks

There's nothing I want. There's nothing I can't do. I don't care about anything. No matter what, I am an imposter. An actor in my own life. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#life