#is

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#regret #risk-taking #change

Staying with detractors is like sleeping in a room located just behind the public toilet. You will never feel comfortable until you relocate. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#change-your-life #comfortable #detractors #dislike #enemies

Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts. ↗

— Ralph Boston

#being #counts #cross #finish #finish line

How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker ↗

— Gail Collins

#ella-baker #existence #life #naacp #volunteer

The mouth is made for communication, and nothing is more articulate than a kiss. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#communication #funny #inspirational #kiss #kissing-quotes

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#foolishness #knowledge #sharing #teaching #wisdom

In the land of Gibberish, the man who makes sense, the man who speaks clearly, clearly speaks nonsense.
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— Jarod Kintz

#communicate #communication #gibberish #land #nonsense

It was part of your religion to hate the British. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#hate #part #religion #your

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#captain #driving #find #foremost #heart

I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#again #am #bare #does #englishmen