#han

I'm a fighter by nature and nothing will ever change that. ↗

— Anastacia

#ever #fighter #i #nature #nothing

Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#first-impressions #passion #change

Listen up cowboy, I don’t need my mind changed. I’m perfectly fine the way things are and you don’t know a damned thing about me so if you don’t mind, I really need to get home. Goodbye Tyler.” I turned on my heel and started walking. “Princess, get in the truck, I’ll give you a lift.” He called. “No!” I shouted over my shoulder and kept on walking. “What’s a man got to do for a date with you?!” He shouted back. Oh My God really? “For starters use proper grammar! ↗

— K. Larsen

#funny-humor #romance-funny #change

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#gandhi #god #mohandas #prayer #religion

The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them. ↗

— David Levithan

#faith #levithan #precarious #word #faith

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. ↗

— Anne Bradstreet

#ax #bruise #edge #fitter #heavy

This is the one who will find us. He's the one who will lead them all back to me someday. He's the explorer. El curioso. ↗

— Sandra Rodriguez Barron

#dominican #faith #orphanage #sacrifice #faith

Once I had her hand, I never wanted to let go of her. ↗

— Ottilie Weber

#holding-hands #love #not-letting-go #family

…anyway it wasn’t your reading that started this. It was the laugher, the carefree laughter, the three dimensional Coca Cola advertisement that you were, the try-anything-once friends, the imperviousness to all that came before you, the chain phone calls, the in-jokes, the instant success, the beach houses, the white lace underwear, the private dancing, the good-graced acceptance pf part-time shift work, the apparent absence of expectations, the ever-changing disposable cults of the rural, the family, the eastern, the modern, the postmodern, the impoverished, the sleekly deregulated, the orgasm, the feminine, the feminist, and then the way you canceled with the air of one making a salad ↗

— Elliot Perlman

#change

As for my family, my father was Danel; he died as a mercenary in the southern wars," Han went on. "My mother's name was Sarah, called Sali, and my sister was Mari. They died last summer. But then, you already knew that. Every time you forget, I'll remind you. That's the blood sacrifice I made to be here, and that's enough. ↗

— Cinda Williams Chima

#family