#iona

Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them. ↗

— Christopher Durang

#balance #based #care #characters #close

If we're doing this for ten hours, I'm going to need a little incentive to stay motivated." Patch hooked his elbow around my neck and dragged me into a kiss. "Every time you strip my sword, I owe you a kiss. How's that sound?" I bit my lip to keep from giggling. "That sounds really dirty." Patch waggled his eyebrows. "Look whose mind just rolled into the gutter. Two kisses per strip. Any objections?" I pulled on an innocent face. "None whatsoever. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#hush-hush #nora #patch #motivational

Your core, lying deep within you, is what makes you what you are. Some call it the soul, the Higher Self, the true self, the being and so on. The name is unimportant once you realize that you are more than your looks and outward appearance. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#confident #empowerment #jedi #motivational #self-confidence

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them. ↗

— Charles Edison

#believers #bosses #citizens #constantly #democracy

Appreciate every little beautiful moment in every day of your life. Give it a try and you'll see the world from another perspective. ↗

— Thea Kristine May

#inspirational-quotes #life #life-and-living #life-lessons #optimism

I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#assistance #been #build #coordinator #efforts

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to. ↗

— Larry Elder

#america #call #capitalism #consequences #failure

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#anyone #get #i #loves #people

What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father. ↗

— Barack Obama

#courage

What we become shouldn't be dictated by the mud and the dung and the dust and the fire and the ice and the dirt and the spit that hit us in the face, but what we become must be a choice made every day in the heart; and they who threw all of that at us to try and defile us– they will look up at us and see us no less beautiful. And even more beautiful. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-quotes #know-thyself #beauty