#improv

Silence embeds thoughts better than speeches. If you are afraid of silence, you are afraid of your thoughts. ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#happiness #inspirational #self #self-development #self-improvement

Why is it we must suffer the loss of something so dear before we realize what a treasure we had? Why must the sun be darkened before we feel how genuinely impossible it is to live without its warmth? Why within the misery of absence does love grow by such bounds? Why must life be this way? It is a strange existence where such suffering makes us far better people. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#hardship #improving #learning #life #richelle

When you say "I will do it", you will stretch your capabilities and achieve something extraordinary. ↗

— Avinash Narula

#self-improvement #streatch #success #motivational

I live, I Love, I Am ↗

— Kathleen Suneja

#self-improvement-book #change

Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art. ↗

— Robert Schumann

#composers #improvising #music #musicians #art

I believe that the greatest truths of the universe don't lie outside, in the study of the stars and the planets. They lie deep within us, in the magnificence of our heart, mind, and soul. Until we understand what is within, we can't understand what is without. ↗

— Anita Moorjani

#fearless #love #near-death-experience #self-improvement #spiritual

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. ↗

— Leon J. Suenes

#dreams

All we are not stares back at what we are. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#self-improvement #potential

You could move.' ---"Dear Abby" responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood. ↗

— Abigail Van Buren

#gay #homophobia #improvement

How is Angeline?" asked Dimitri. "Is she improving?" Eddie and I exchanged glances. So much for avoiding her indiscretions. "improving how exactly?" I asked. "Improving how exactly?" I asked. "In combat, in following the dress code, or in keeping her hands to herself?" "Or in turning off caps lock?" added Eddie. "you noticed that too?"I asked. "Hard not to," he said. Dimitri looked surprised, which was not a common thing. He wasn't caught off guard very often, but then, no one could really prepare for what Angeline might do. "I didn't realize I needed to be more specific," said Dimitri after a pause. "I meant combat. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#vampire #improvement