#is

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet. ↗

— Seth Godin

#artists #conformity #creativity #nonconformity #poetry

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet. ↗

— Lauren Myracle

#inspirational #lauren-myracle #let-it-snow #mistakes #change

Strength of my heart, I need not fail, Not mind to fear but to obey, With such a Leader, who could quail? Thou art as Thou wert yesterday. Strength of my heart, I rest in Thee, Fulfil Thy purposes through me. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

#trusting-god #art

There's a girl, Dad." He smiled a bit. "A girl." "She kinda hates me, and I kinda..." "Love her?" "I don't know. I don't think so. I mean...how do you know?" His smile grew wider. "When you're talking about her with your old dad because you don't know what else to do. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#travis-maddox #beauty

If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#distorting #form #great #had #i

It doesn’t take much to surprise others, but to surprise oneself- now that is a great feat. ↗

— Kristen Hartley

#surprise #inspirational

It's a good feeling to see the kids try to make it, try to get to the big leagues. Everyone here has an opportunity to achieve his dream. I was lucky I was able to achieve my dream. ↗

— Tony Oliva

#achieve #big #big leagues #dream #everyone

It was obviously a pretty hectic development schedule and we put a huge team on to it but it paid off because we continuously get complemented on the finished product. ↗

— Andrew Oliver

#complemented #continuously #development #finished #finished product

My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#brilliant #british #cooking #dad #eating

But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? ↗

— George Haven Putnam

#against #conservatism #conservative #destructive #eminently