#fully

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. ↗

#ageing #aging #aging-gracefully #economy #getting-older

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. ↗

#books #else #furnishes #furniture #house

If anyone had bothered to notice me, they would only see a scared fifteen-year-old girl with eyes of sable ringed by kohl liner and black hair that fell to her waist. They wouldn't see someone struggling to remain sane. Only an empty space where a real girl used to live. ↗

— Sherry Soule

#sherry-soule #shiloh #beauty

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead. ↗

— Núria Añó

#feminism #freedom #gender #gender-inequality #hypocrisy

What is missing in our time is not the willingness of God to act in biblical ways, but the willingness of his people to believe he is still the God of the Bible—and to act on that faith. To throw away fear, to stride against common wisdom, to risk all that we have and all that we are so we may follow only our simple belief that the God of the Scriptures is still alive and that he will still do what he says in his Word. ↗

— Wes Moore

#quotes #faith

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#everything #except #forgives #genius #public

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#home #like #more #mortals #novelist

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more. ↗

— George S. Patton

#attack #defended #ever #more #nobody

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more. ↗