#col

I imagine I should have told it to you before? I love you, Sejal.I wish for you to become my wife.Recently I’ve also opened a shop in North Dakota and thinking that, just maybe, you love me too. ↗

— Chayada Welljaipet

#eternal-love #romance #romance-love #romance-novel #romance-novels

I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to “surround yourself with people who are better than you,” and I was now living that mantra. ↗

— Kimberly Novosel

#good-people #growing-up #inspirational #learning #lessons

don't think so deeply ... so taking decisions will be difficult..... ↗

— Raheel Habib

#inspirational

A lot of our fans are kids who have so little hope in life and face so many dark things. And definitely there are times where you need to feel what they feel, cry with them, rejoice with them. But there comes a point where we have to let them go on their own. We have to hug them and say, ‘We have to believe that you’re going to wake up tomorrow, because if we went through so much stuff and ended up here, the possibilities are endless for you. ↗

— Lacey Sturm

#flyleaf #future #hope #inspirational #mosley

To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God. ↗

— J. Budziszewski

#god #how-to-stay-christian-in-college #intelligence

I had a good teacher." "Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass." "I mean you, dummy. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#jealousy #morganville-vampires #shane-collins #jealousy

Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe lord it over a continent ten times its size? Why does needy Africa continue to let its wealth meet the needs of those outside its borders and then follow behind with hands outstretched for a loan of the very wealth it let go? How did we arrive at this, that the best leader is the one that knows how to beg for a share of what he has already given away at the price of a broken tool? Where is the future of Africa? ↗

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

#african-authors #colonialism #leadership #leadership

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#life #write #life

Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#sam-roth #life

What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV. ↗

— John Green

#colin-singleton #john-green #life