#hall

Good luck explaining to God that you used to spank one of his heavenly beings." Mom gave a startled laugh. "Sophie!" "What? You did. I hope you like hot weather, Mom, that's all I'm saying. ↗

— Rachel Hawkins

#rachel-hawkins #hope

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#be happy #choose #day #dead #events

His voice was low, and I think he would've been hot if he weren't radiating that air of "I Am Super Evil--No, Really--And Not In The Sexy Way. ↗

— Rachel Hawkins

#hex-hall #mirror-man #rachel-hawkins #sexy #sophie

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge. ↗

— China Miéville

#trap #challenge

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#drama #fiction #nick-carraway #challenge

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#challenge #moon #space-travel #trial #challenge

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow. ↗

— Tony Schwartz

#certainty #curiosity #growing #learning #letting-go

A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#chiron #hero #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians #rick-riordan #ultimate-guide

Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#michael #challenge

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#free-speech #progress #challenge