#arte

Crouched on the roof between BEx and Liz, I wasn't a girl who had just broken up with her boyfriend; I looked at my watch and check my gear instead of crying. I had a mission objective and not a broken heart. ↗

— Ally Carter

#breaking-up #romance #spies #teen-spies #love

Luck was a joke. Even good luck was just bad luck with its hair combed. ↗

— Stephen King

#lucky-quarter #humor

Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go. ↗

— Simon Zingerman

#business #creativity #feel-good #good-hearted #goodness

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#civil rights #civil rights movement #culture #graduate #graduate school

Because I don't think God trusts just anybody with so much heartache. The world has not yet seen what God can do with a man who gives both halves of a broken heart to him. And I don't doubt that a man like that can change the world...or at least a little part of it. ↗

— Chris Fabry

#change #christian #god #heartache #hope

No perfection can last forever. Time tears at it; wears it down until it's nothing, just an empty shell. ↗

— Cassandra Giovanni

#romance #sob-story #story-of-the-broken-hearted #love

I should have learned my lesson from Greek myths, really. It so doesn't pay to fall in love with a god. It’s either you get transformed – flower, bull, you name it, the gods can be that petty – or you just get…crushed. ↗

— Marian Tee

#hurt #love #love

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself. ↗

— Émile Zola

#passionless #pleasure #love

[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#beliefs #clichés #convictions #dignity #double-standards

Life is upside down. Thank God for just taking what we want, not what we need. He take what we want to make us ready for receiving what we need. ↗

— Cynthia Rusli

#economic-depression #inspirational #love-hurts #motivational-quotes #inspirational