#iona

Let your past be your spring-board, not your quicksand. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #past #quicksand #spring-board

Sometimes it takes more courage to ask for help than to act alone. ↗

— Ken Petti

#courage

The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#emotional #everything #fight #flight #hears

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#connection #friendship #goethe #inspirational #love

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck. ↗

— Bob Goodlatte

#chosen #each #given #lottery #luck

It takes courage to live, yes, but it takes true bravery to stand your ground in a world aligned against you. ↗

— Jake Bonsignore

#wisdom #courage

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#chaos #crystallize #forms #i #i believe

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#people #soviet #unconditional #want

Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching. ↗

— Bart Gordon

#children #content #during #hours #interest

It's odd when I think of the arc of my life, from child to young woman to aging adult. First I was who I was. Then I didn't know who I was. Then I invented someone and became her. Then I began to like what I invented. And finally I was what I was again..."Anna Quindlen ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#life-lessons #age