#inning

You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#love #love

Once the rain starts falling it's hard to tell it to stop... ↗

— Samantha Young

#love #passion #rain #thoughts #love

[When asked about Writing Conferences] "You meet people that will change your life. ↗

— Susan Wingate

#fiction-novel #inspiring #reading #women-s-stories #change

Winning is a science, educate yourself to win . ↗

— Sandeep Kakkar

#winning #education

In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#endings #experience #experience

I was taught that you can’t expect to be forgiven when you continuously commit the same sin over and over again. ↗

— J.B. McGee

#forgiven #forgiveness #j-b-mcgee #jb-mcgee #sinning

Just as abruptly, he'd become a father. While preparing the book for publication, he'd been dating a woman named Sarah Coowe, an infectious-disease specialist at MGH. They were evenly matched in many ways: sharp-dressed, sharp-tongued, and devoted to their careers and personal freedoms to the exclusion of any serious interest in so-called romance. They spent ten months together. A few weeks after they broke up -- Sarah initiated the split -- she called to say that she was pregnant. "It's mine?" asked Affenlight. "He or she," replied Sarah, "is mostly mine." They named the child Pella -- that was Affenlight's idea, though Sarah certainly had the final say. For those first couple of years, Affenlight conspired as often as he could to show up at Sarah and Pella's Kendall Square townhouse with expensive takeout and a new toy. He was fascinated with his daughter, with the sheer reality of her, a beautiful something where before there'd been nothing. He hated kissing her good-bye; and yet he relished, couldn't keep himself from relishing, the total quiet of his townhouse when he walked in, the scattered books and papers and lack of baby-proofing. ↗

— Chad Harbach

#so-called-romance #art

Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#life #luck #make-it-happen #success #winning

Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser. ↗

— Toba Beta

#law #life #preservation #preserve #rule

Humanity does not ask to be happy.It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, , but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#learning #life #survival #winning #life