#knowing

How would your life be different if…You stopped focusing on what you didn’t want and started focusing on what you do want? Let today be the day…You establish a clear intent, make a plan, and take actions towards your intent. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#change #goal #inspirational #intent #knowing-oneself

A piece of information can change a person. I'd hate to change the way I'm supposed to live the future. ↗

— Samantha Young

#future #information #knowing #change

A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead. ↗

— Andrew Sean Greer

#existentialism #imagination #knowing-someone #knowledge #love

Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds. ↗

— Michelle Williams

#being #best #brooklyn #dinner #dinner table

Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#body-and-mind #body-image #body-language #body-mind #identity

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#amendment #any #company #first #first amendment

Character is just an invention.... It is the self-fulfilling prophecy that guides our lives... and the longer we live with it the more boxed in we are by the rapidly diminishing variedness of our imagined selves. What we can't ever accept is that we might never know who we are. ↗

— Kamila Shamsie from Broken Verses

#knowing-oneself #imagination

Just knowing that through my music I actually inspire people is amazing for me and I find it very heartwarming. ↗

— Thia Megia

#amazing #find #heartwarming #i #inspire

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#closer #debate #emerge #end #engage

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day. ↗

— Dean Martin

#day #feel #getting #going #good