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Through real-life stories, Kristin Kaufman illustrates the core idea of being present in the moment and opening oneself up to new ideas in order to become an authentic leader in life. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#is-this-seat-taken #kristin-kaufman #leadership #stephen-covey #leadership

Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it? ↗

— Ally Condie

#box #breakup #church #day #first

Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#cake #life #novels #romance #life

Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#life

LOVE is and will ALWAYS be the greatest GIFT ƸӜƷ ↗

— M.G. Wells

#love #mg-wells #quotes #quotes-for-women #quotes-i-love

Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. ↗

— Jack London

#making-do #poker #life

I was in the biggest breakdown of my life when I stopped crying long enough to let the words of my epiphany really sink in. That whore, karma had finally made her way around and had just bitch-slapped me right across the face. The realization only made me cry harder. ↗

— Jennifer Salaiz

#heartbreak #jennifer-salaiz #karma #life #sadness

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#chains-of-events #commonplaces-of-existence #cross-purposes #fiction #on-fiction

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#mistakes #life

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#mistakes #regret #life