#ak

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#future-plans #mistakes

If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do, you will never learn from your mistakes. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#mortal-instruments #mistakes

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#work #dignity

Think, dream and expect great things. For would you rather be correct in your perception? Or would you rather be exceptional in your life? ↗

— Christopher Babson

#inspirational-speaker #motivational-quotes #motivational-speaker #personal-development #personal-growth

It seemed funny that one day I would go to bed in her arms and the next not feel anything, like a switch had gone off. But no, that wasn’t honest either. This had been building for a long time. Our silences were getting longer. Our arguments more frequent. How do you stay with someone when there are no dreams to build? No purpose to accomplish? No meaning? No meaning —that was the monster that drove us away from one another in the end. Always. ↗

— Steven L. Peck

#dreams #existence #existentialism #love #meaning

I'm independent and strong, but sometimes...just sometimes, it's nice to be taken case of. It's nice to be made to feel like a lady ↗

— Samantha Towle

#jake #lady #strong #the-mighty-storm #tru

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel. ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#detachment #heart #heartbreak #birth

I'm only a housewife, I'm afraid." How often do we hear this shocking admission. I'm afraid when I hear it I feel very angry indeed. Only a housewife: only a practitioner of one of the two most noble professions (the other one is that of a farmer); only the mistress of a huge battery of high and varied skills and custodian of civilization itself. Only a typist, perhaps! Only a company director, or a nuclear physicist; only a barrister; only the President! When a woman says she is a housewife she should say it with the utmost pride, for there is nothing higher on this planet to which she could aspire. ↗

— John Seymour

#housewives #womanhood #president

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#democracy #inclination #injustice #justice #makes

Fool! The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic? O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth: the thing thou seekest is already with thee, ‘here or nowhere,’ couldst thou only see! ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#motivational #wake-up-call #art