#ira

Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive, that you understand going to die, and you live a better life because of it. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#life-lessons #age

Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#aspirations #become #confusing #distracting #frustrating

Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war. ↗

— Pierre Curie

#alfred #also #characteristic #criminals #destruction

The three most harmful negative emotions are anger, guilt, and fear. And anger is number one. It is also the strongest and most dangerous of all passions. ↗

— Joyce Meyer

#anger

I started off wanting to change the world, now I'm just hoping the world doesn't change me. ↗

— Ray Mileur

#ray-mileur #change

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#inspirational #writing #age

Forgiveness is a gift we can only give to ourselves. ↗

— Jeffrey Spahr-Summers

#hope #inspirational #love #forgiveness

More Miracles occur from Gratitude and Forgiveness than anything else ↗

— Philip H. Friedman

#gratitude #miracles #forgiveness

We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too. ↗

— John Calvin

#miracles #must #remember #satan #too

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#empirically #finding #following #genius #inspiration