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Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier...It just makes you less likely to quit." ~ Georgia "The Friday Night Knitting Club ↗

— Kate Jacobs

#georgia #job #knitting #life #passion

My life has been shaped by the decision two people made over 24 years ago. They decided to adopt a child. They got me, and I got a chance at the kind of life all children deserve. ↗

— Karen Fowler

#children #parenting #life

Flawed Human Parents + Shit Life Throws At You = Childhood That 'Builds Character. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#life #parents #life

What will remain is neither you nor me but what we shared among each others. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#love #share #life

By ten o'clock she thought he might soon be ready to talk. He'd threatened, blustered, even tried to sweet-talk her. Then the bribery had begun. He'd let her live if she let him out immediately. He'd give her three horses, two sheep, and a cow. He'd give her a pouch of coin, three horses, two sheep, not just a cow but a milking cow, and set her up anywhere in England, if she would just leave his castle and not bother him again for the rest of his life. The only offer/threat that had perked her momentary interest was when he'd shouted that he was going to "toop her 'til her bonny legs fell off." She should be so lucky. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#gwen #karen-marie-moning #kiss-of-the-highlander #life

In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves. ↗

— Rolf Edberg

#life #sea #self #life

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves. ↗

— Aberjhani

#celebrities #famous-authors #famous-poets #gratitude #hope

I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth ↗

— William Shakespeare

#joy #life #party #shakespeare #toast

Be careful with too much joy, it can make you numb in life. ↗

— Toba Beta

#numb #too-much-joy #life

A smoke, a book, a cup of coffee. These are the little things that get us through this sometimes weary world and all the rainy days. ↗

— R.M. Engelhardt

#cigarettes #coffee #life #r-m-engelhardt #life