#ions

I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day. ↗

— Brene Brown

#connection #courage #relationships #courage

I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I almost never cry. It's not that I'm stronger than the ones with teary eyes, I'm weaker. They have courage. When all you are is skin and bones, feelings are a brave thing. I'm more of a coward. The difference is minimal though, I just use my strength not to cry. When I do allow myself a feeling, I take the part that hurts and bandage it up with a story that doesn't cry, that doesn't dwell on homesickness. ↗

— Herta Müller

#feelings #homesickness #sadness #courage

My mom and dad died, but in their place I got a house of fog that’s easy to hide my feelings in. (No smoking, please.)
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— Jarod Kintz

#death #emotions #family #feelings #fog

Yea though I walk through the Valley of Death, I shall fear no evil, for I am the baddest M-F in the valley. ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

#death

Do not only think about it, but feel about it, also, before taking appropriate action. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#consciousness #emotions #feel #impulse #planning

Explore, experience, evolve, and exceed your expectations! - No Excuses! ↗

— Lorii Myers

#exceed #expectations #experience #explore #experience

My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#any #based #between #brothers #calculations

Partially undermining the manufacturer's ability to assert that its work constituted a meaningful contribution to mankind was the frivolous way in which it went about marketing its products. Grief was the only rational response to the news that an employee had spent three months devising a supermarket promotion based on an offer of free stickers of cartoon characters called the Fimbles. Why had the grown-ups so churlishly abdicated their responsibilities? Were there not more important ambitions to be met before Death showed himself on the horizon in his hooded black cloak, his scythe slung over his shoulder? ↗

— Alain de Botton

#business #death #marketing #meaning #products

Success is not determined by the outcome. The outcome is the result of having already decided that you are successful to begin with. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#courage #decisions #goals #outcome #quotes

You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it, and you remember how they changed as they grew older and the joy of questioning everything slowly became transformed into the pain of questioning everything, like a star consuming its own core. ↗

— Kevin Brockmeier

#humor #joking #questions #wit #age