#che

The condition of the wounded touched my heart deeply. ↗

— Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

#deeply #heart #touched #wounded

Me? I didn’t believe in hopeless. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#dimitri-s-point-of-view #hopeless #inspiring #richelle-mead #rose-hathaway

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone. ↗

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

#black #boil #i #kettle #kitchen

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor. (Eric Hoffer 1902-1983) ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#persistence #talent #inspirational

To achieve great things we must be self-confined...mastery is revealed in limitation. ↗

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

#philosophy #schelling #inspirational

Hier denkt man in einfachen mathematischen Kategorien. Wer arbeitet, schafft Geld heran, wer im Ruhestand ist, gibt es aus. ↗

— Núria Añó

#deutsche-sprache #german #humor #inspirational #leben

The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning. ↗

— Harrison Salisbury

#cents #cheap #convenient #cost #downtown

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear. ↗

— Mary Church Terrell

#children #colored #crosses #heaviest #prejudice

I was glad I liked chemistry. ↗

— Andy Grove

#glad #i #liked

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#desires #feet #like #off #our