#inner

No matter who we are, where we live, what we look like, the circumstances of our birth or the situations we face; each of us has gifts within us. Strength, beauty, courage, compassion, hope, joy, talent, imagination, reverence, wisdom, love and faith are among them. They are not like material presents we unwrap and hold in our hands. We can’t see these gifts with our eyes. But they are real and powerful. When we open ourselves to them, they can enrich every aspect of our lives. They can help us transform challenges into opportunities and tragedies into triumphs. They can help us make a difference in the world. ↗

— Charlene Costanzo

#compassion #courage #faith #healing #hope

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#buying #child #dinner #only #wants

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner. ↗

— Jude Law

#always #angry #beauty #directors #give

If this were a proper world, beautiful faces would belong to beautiful people. Good people with kind hearts and clever minds would always have bright eyes and dazzling smiles, and bad people would have scraggly hair and warty noses. That way if you saw one of them coming, you could cross to the other side of the street and avoid them altogether. But this is not a proper world. In our world, many bad people look quite nice, and many good people are not beautiful at all. Many good people aren't pretty or cute or even interesting-looking. ↗

— Brit Trogen

#imagination #inner-beauty #margaret-and-the-moth-tree #novel #people

I grew up in Kentucky, but I did not grow up like that. I had heat, and I didn't have to shoot my dinner or anything. ↗

— Jennifer Lawrence

#did #dinner #grew #grow #grow up

It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#cause #changes #come #external #follows

The Internet is a bright spot for our struggling economy and functioning just fine without what amounts to a federal pat-down of the inner workings of the Internet. ↗

— Mary Bono

#economy #federal #fine #functioning #inner

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#example #examples #including #inner #jesus

I ain't nothing but a winner. ↗

— Paul Bryant

#nothing #winner

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners. ↗

— Johnny Carson

#dinners #eating #frozen #inventor #radio