#ate

Life is for participating, not for spectating. ↗

— Kathrine Switzer

#participate #running #spectate #inspirational

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#gratefulness #misfortunes #reflection #men

Maybe we can't have everything we want in this relationship, Susanna." He bent his lips to her ears and whispered, "But we have this ball and tonight, you are my queen. ↗

— Rachel Hauck

#suz #relationship

The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implementation, however, it would appear a more appropriate name would be the Bailed Out Bank Refinancing Fund. ↗

— Ed Royce

#appropriate #authors #bailed #bank #business

We are treated different because we want to be treated different. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#inspirational #life-lessons #treated #inspirational

It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dress, and I have enjoyed every moment of it. It was such an incredible honor to be asked, and I am so proud of what we and the Alexander McQueen team have created. ↗

— Sarah Burton

#am #asked #been #catherine #create

Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will. ↗

— Anthon St. Maarten

#destiny #fate-destiny #free-will #fulfillment #happiness

Hatred only tarnishes the soul that carries it. ↗

— D.B. Harrop

#hatred #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #life-lessons #love

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#anarchist #chomsky #communism-patriotism-inspiration #lenin #leninism

The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox. The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides. The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun. The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus. The moral of the story? Kids are smart. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#cactus #child #children #clever #desert