#isi

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#diversity #divisiveness #food #politics #food

I can physically see the effort it takes for him to open his mouth and force out the words. He's spent so much of his life not being seen, not being heard, that he's forgotten how to realize anything he says does hold weight and is important. ↗

— Kelley York

#worthiness #you-matter #life

Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand.  And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#choices #conclusion #consequences #decisions #effect

Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower. ↗

— Robert McKee

#capability #decisions #determination #life #willpower

There are always exquisite things and times to remind us of the original source of all beauty and love. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#exquisite #love #beauty

للعشاق صمت ...له مذاق الغناء ↗

— أحمد بهجت

#spirituality #sufisim #love

How can you fall in love at first sight when you can't even see? ↗

— Melinda Cross

#cross #darkness #eyes #handicapped #lion

I know when something is too important to be decided by logic. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#logic #love #romance #love

She'd stood by that creed. No softness, because the world wasn't soft; lots of laughter, because if you were in on the joke, the joke couldn't be on you; And no wanting what you couldn't take, because the world never gave. Or so she'd thought. ↗

— Connie Brockway

#hope #life #life-lessons #love #strength

It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he was capable of was another kind of blow, and it had left her almost speechless. Then there was the fury with herself—for she had known what Henry’s love was, and still she had gone back to suffer a little more at his hands. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#falsehood #fury #pain #love