#hip

Watch me go. Watch me. Because you said i couldn't. Because you thought I wouldn't. Go on, cry now. Cry. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#breaking-up #couples #excerpts #free #heartbreak

...it is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#hardship #inspirational #life #stoic #stoicismism

She’d treasured every minute, but being with him was beginning to inspire more conflict within her than serenity. ↗

— Nicki Elson

#love #inspirational

Your Potential is all that you can HAVE but have not yet possessed. No limits. No boundaries ↗

— Fela Durotoye

#leadership #potential #inspirational

LIGHT has no value without darkness, just as a SOLUTION has no value without a problem ↗

— Fela Durotoye

#leadership #solutions #inspirational

Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and analytical aptitude, and discretion. ↗

— Marilyn Johnson

#librarianship #intelligence

I´m just not sending out the right vibe lately. Perhaps the fact that I wear stained sweatpants and free T-shirts is holding me back. I just can´t seem to get back into the intelligent-slut-for-hire outfits that lure men; even shoes with laces evade me. Plus my hair is Fran Lebowitz-esque. I think my eyes are getting closer together. I don´t know. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#leadership #morality #right #righteousness #leadership

The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority. ↗

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

#leadership #leadership

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." [On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.] ↗

— Winston Churchill

#classic-insult #vice #virtue #leadership