#ding

Time creates Let time work at your projects. ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#decision-inspirational #decision-making #fulfilling-life #happiness #projects

To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#collecting #reading #life

No importa si no te entienden, lo que importa es que tengas el valor de decirlo. ↗

— Jackson Pearce

#inspirational #talk #understanding #inspirational

The tenth gift is Wisdom. Guiding your way, wisdom will lead you through knowledge to understanding. May you hear its soft voice. ↗

— Charlene Costanzo

#character-building #inner-guidance #inspiration #self-worth #wisdom

Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamoured, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of utter inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realised that there was, after all, something god-like about him. He could control a horse. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#hero-worship #horses #love #riding #superiority

A ști anumite lucruri pe de rost îți conferă capacitatea unei înțelegeri superioare. ↗

— Jean-Claude Carrière

#intelligence #science #understanding #intelligence

In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#enlightenment #expression #face #faces #life

[The laws of logic] were placed in our minds by the Creator during the act of creation. We speak because God has spoken. God is not the author of confusion, irrationality, or the absurd. Furthermore, his words are meant to be understood by his creatures, and a necessary condition for his creature's understanding of those words is that they are intelligible and not irrational. ↗

— R. C. Sproul

#god #logic #the-law-of-noncontradiction #faith

Cammie!" I'll never forget the tone of Macey's voice in that moment. "Cam," she said slowly, moving toward me, "I know how it feels to be watched every second of every day. I know what it's like to trust fewer and fewer people until it seems like you are completely alone in the world. I know you think the only things that are left in your life are the bad things. I know what you're feeling, Cam." Her hands were on my shoulders. Her blue eyes were staring into mine. "I know. ↗

— Ally Carter

#friends #spy #understanding #life

There’s a trick to the 'graceful exit.' It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over — and let it go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving up, rather than out. ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#endings #life