#ear

I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap. ↗

— Greg Egan

#employers #gap #i #likely #long

I had a fear of being alone. ↗

— Gloria Gaynor

#being #being alone #fear #had #i

I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years. ↗

— Boy George

#i #unwelcome #years

To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#heartbreak #inspirational #friendship

Goodbye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he manages it. And then he'll not leave you again. Rest you quiet till I come; and may no foul creature come anigh you! And if the Lady could hear me and give me one wish, I would wish to come back and find you again. Good bye! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#lord-of-the-rings #middle-earth #sam #tolkien #true-love

How accommodating love is; it forgives everything. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#forgiving #heartbreak #love #forgiveness

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#bitterest #called #enough #forth #hours

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#difficulty #inspirational #learning #science #value

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christianity #heart #inspirational #jesus-shock #love

I didn’t answer. We were not buddies. We could not chat about the proximity of our offices, or football, or forgiveness. ↗

— Kimberly Novosel

#exes #football #forgiveness #heartbreak #love