#gage

But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected. "I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy." -Anne ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#happiness #pearls #romance #tears #dreams

Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#health #health insurance #insurance #kids #left

How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question. ↗

— Ted Danson

#how #important #individual #life #much

When it comes to luggage, I am an underpacker. ↗

— Pharrell Williams

#comes #i #i am #luggage

I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#change #country #direction #engaged #i

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#both #conscience #effective #engages #meek

You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#different #fannie #freddie #good #mortgage

I hate flying, airports and the whole rigmarole - queuing up, security and lost luggage. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#hate #i #lost #luggage #security

You carry your country with you, it's part of your baggage. ↗

— Roy Thomson

#carry #country #part #you #your

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper. ↗