#it

Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person. ↗

— Beth Kephart

#words #writing #imagination

Responsibility is the admission that you have a role in this game called life. ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#life

Just as Christians should not be constantly feeling the pulse of their spiritual life, so too the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be continually taking its temperature. The more thankfully we daily receive what is given to us, the more assuredly and consistently will community increase and grow from day to day as God pleases ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#life

I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself. ↗

— Anna Kamieńska

#poetry #writing #life

Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard work, it is all uphill struggle. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#something-borrowed #life

What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon, Mary. ↗

— George Bailey

#life

All we know is what we're told. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#knowledge #life #perception #reality #subjectivity

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture. ↗

— John Abbott

#culture #every #increased #man #may

We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#individualism #success #life

He continued with his research until he found a book entitled The Ultimate Dating Guide: How To Find The Perfect Girlfriend and Keep Them. He flipped through the contents and found the chapter called flirting with confidence. He took out a pen and notebook from his back pocket and scribbled some notes. Praise her body the book advised. Tell her you find her attractive. He decided he would record the key phrases and chose the right moment to recite these to Katie. He wrote you have come to bed eyes. Your eyes were the key to the soul and I like what I see ↗

— Annette J. Dunlea

#annette-j-dunlea #irish-writer #dating