#less

To be alive──is Power. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#life

Choose battles that you can win without losing your heart and your soul. ↗

— Kristin Cast

#life

But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#lessons #life #mistake #truth #life

This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely. ↗

— Malcolm X

#life #life-lessons #life

People ask me, 'Have you ever considered doing stand-up?' To me it would be less offensive if someone asked me, 'Have you ever considered dental implants?' ↗

— David Sedaris

#asked #considered #dental #doing #ever

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart... ↗

— Abraham Verghese

#life

It's not always thankless. Let's face it - it's not always thankless. I've gotten a lot of really great recognition and I've worked with amazing people. ↗

— Kyra Sedgwick

#amazing #amazing people #face #gotten #great

Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know? ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#auden-west #bikes #boys #capable-of-more #debutante

قد لا ينقذ من يطلب العدل العالم,و لكنه ينقذ نفسه. ↗

— بهاء طاهر

#justice #life-lessons #life

Patrick: Is fear rith maith nά drochseasamh. Jessica:And that means what? Patrick: A good run is better than a bad stand. Jessica: Oh. And that means what? Patrick: It means, Jessica, that life is about choices. Sometimes you fight, sometimes you flee, but you never surrender. ↗

— Michele Bardsley

#life