#ff

No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#emily #giffin #career

It is never late, you can start the movement now, the provisions have been made, the price has been paid and the gifts have been packaged. Are you willing to change? ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#dreams #fulfilling-purpose #inspiration #risk-it-be-different #success-self-improvement

You are addressed by the way you dress. Your attire reflects your sense of value or taste and of course, your speech either makes or mars you. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#dreams #fulfilling-purpose #inspiration #risk-it-be-different #success-self-improvement

At first he didn't know where he was, whose voice it was. He must have been asleep. And waking suddenly, like that, you woke in a thousand different places that you'd never been. ↗

— Rupert Thomson

#dreams #wake #dreams

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#jefferson #security #thomas #thomas-jefferson #freedom

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that. ↗

— John Green

#fathers #pride #sons #father

I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water -- that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#destruction

Her lips are like pillows of warm glass. It is strange to find her resistant for even a second, since she has been the kisser and not the kissed. It wasn't like the last time, which felt fumbling and unnatural. That time wasn't off-putting, just like kissing one's sister. This kiss, my kiss, was tingling sweetness, electric apple blossoms. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

#apple #kiss #kisses #kissing #love

As long as she persisted in her belief that bafflement justified her actions, she felt confident no one would contradict her. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

#confident #confusion #contradict #dreams

Dreams were the brain's way of sorting out things left unsettled in our waking lives ↗

— Hilary Duff

#hilary-duff #dreams