#eve

We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them. ↗

— John Irving

#perspective #revelation #self-discovery #mistakes

Stop judging your life only by the failures," he whispered. "What should I do?" she whispered. "I'm always going to fail." "We all do," he said softly, his voice closer now. "We all fail. But none of us fail all the time. ↗

— Michelle Sagara West

#kaylin-neya #severn #life

The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in. ↗

— Jeff Olson

#life-lesson #life

...Jesus saw the eternal in the everyday. Your last day on earth should be spent as you spent all your others-- doing your daily tasks with love and honesty... An ordinary day is, perhaps, the most holy of all. ↗

— Margaret George

#jesus #spirtuality #life

Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace. ↗

— A. Powell Davies

#life #meaning #peace #reverence #life

When Everything you've had is stolen from you, all you have left is REVENGE ↗

— Emily Thorne

#revege-is-sweet #revenge #stolen #true #life

I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#find-your-passion #find-yourself #growing-up #knowing-who-you-are #learning

He will lunch with you at your flat tomorrow at one-thirty. Please remember that he drinks no wine, strongly disapproves of smoking, and can only eat the simplest food, owing to an impaired digestion. Do not offer him coffee, for he considers it the root of half the nerve-trouble in the world." "I should think a dog-biscuit and a glass of water would about meet the case, what?" "Bertie!" "Oh, all right. Merely persiflage." "Now it is precisely that sort of idiotic remark that would be calculated to arouse Sir Roderick's worst suspicions. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#jeeves #food

Strange, how such a small realization can affect everyone's life forever. In movies there is always a carefully staged moment - a big crescendo of music, close- ups of the actors' faces, the camera slowly pulling away to let all this sink in for the viewer...but, in real life, most all of the extraordinary things happen with no more loudness than a whisper. ↗

— Silas House

#realizations #life

Revenge did that to a person; it caused even the insecure and the meek to take foolhardy chances. After a while it became a way of life; the risks felt as natural as drawing a breath. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#life