#he

When discouraged some people will give up, give in or give out far too early. They blame their problems on difficult situations, unreasonable people or their own inabilities. When discouraged other people will push back that first impulse to quit, push down their initial fear, push through feelings of helplessness and push ahead. They’re less likely to find something to blame and more likely to find a way through. ↗

— Steve Goodier

#blaming-others #courage #discouragement #fear #give-up

Did you not take the opportunity to bathe, gentlemen?" Valentina questioned them, trying to take her mind off her body, which felt unusually sensitive in this sultry climate. The silk of her gown seemed to rub against her nipples with every breath. ↗

— Bertrice Small

#tropical-paradise #love

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#reading #self-help #self-improvement #dating

When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them. ↗

— James Van Der Beek

#happen #lead #react #series #them

I remember in 'Law of Desire,' where I played a homosexual, that people were more upset that I kissed a man on the mouth than I killed a man. It's interesting to see how people can pardon you for murdering a man, but they can't pardon you for kissing one. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#homosexual #how #i #i remember #interesting

Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important. ↗

— Geoffrey Beene

#clothes #enjoy #even #important #inside

Formal mathematics is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your mathematics is. ↗

— Leslie Lamport

#nature

Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors. ↗

— Beth Kephart

#mysteries #nature

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#good-people #human-nature #hypocrisy #pretending #roles

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#generation #good #his #immortal #mr