#allen

I care about you," Simon said. "I always cared about you. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-fallen-angels

The question is not whether or not change and challenge are going to happen. They are. The question is, when they do happen, how are we going to choose to look at them, contextualize them, and navigate them? ↗

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

#change #choice #choose #grace #graceful

There's a very simple reason why quality relationships are scarce: we live in a fallen world, and it sucks. ↗

— Susan E. Isaacs

#love #relationships #sin #love

If we are not allowed to deal with small problems, we will be destroyed by slightly larger ones. When we come to understand this, we live our lives not avoiding problems, but welcoming them them as challenges that will strengthen us so that we can be victorious in the future. ↗

— Jim Stovall

#encouragement #inspiration #inspirational

But they love each other. Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #love #marriage #the-mortal-instruments #love

...no way through it but through it," I tell myself. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#inspirational #motivation #inspirational

Engaging in activities devoid of difficulty, lounging in risk-free zones, is life without great meaning. ↗

— Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

#comfort-zone #inspirational #life #risk #inspirational

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available. ↗

— Roy Romer

#american #american dream #available #before #challenges

I'll take that challenge. It's a dead hand against a living will. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#inspirational

When things are exceptionally hard, there is a reason why they’re hard; and it’s usually because they’re not meant to be and we’re not listening. ↗

— Rachael Bermingham SAVVY Ingredients for Success

#life-challenges #listening-to-inner-self #listening-to-your-heart #motivational-quotes #inspirational