#ff

I kicked off... and things went on from there... down and down. ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#i #kicked #off #things #went

How are we suppose to thrive when everything we do in life is done to hinder us? We know more from the streets than from school. More from movies than books. The world is constantly trying to contain you, to make your life harder. You have to break free from this viscous current. Don't you see? Or you will be swept away into a sea of ordinary. ↗

— B.S. Wood

#difficulties #hope #inspirational #learning #motivational

For within your flesh, deep within the center of your being, is the undaunted, waiting, longing, all-knowing. Is the ready, able, perfect. Within you, waiting its turn to emerge, piece by piece, with the dawn of every former test of trial and blackness, is the next unfolding, the great unfurling of wings, the re-forged backbone of a true Child of Light. ↗

— Jennifer DeLucy

#empower #empowering #empowerment #encouraging #growth

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

#begun #broken #friendships #never #off

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. ↗

— James Madison

#diffusion #guardian #knowledge #liberty #only

You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#just #off #perfect #pushing #wall

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#between #bored #daydreaming #difference #doing

Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#bankruptcy #declares #happens #her #his

I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different. ↗

— Barry Watson

#being different #cowboys #dallas #different #earring

My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship. ↗

— Emily Watson

#concentrate #darkened #had #i #interesting