#less

Holding on to weight (i.e. anger, bitterness, the past, hatred) will not only hold you back, but also block your blessings. You've got to let some things go to move forward. ↗

— Yvonne Pierre

#forgiveness #letting-go #moving-forward #anger

Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#careless #rage #anger

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#anger #aspiration #control #forgiveness #grow

The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't ↗

— Yahtzee Croshaw

#artist #critic #flawless #truth #art

A dog has one aim in life... to bestow his heart. ↗

— J.R. Ackerley

#dog #doglovers #humanity #kindness #love

Not all that have fallen are vanquished. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#heaven #hope #inspirational #jrr-tolkien #life-lessons

Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today. ↗

— James Allen

#life

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. ↗

— Le Corbusier

#faster #i #leaves #less #lies

You’re scaring the dog,” Trish pointed out. She rarely called me by name. They do that in prisoner of war camps, I’ve heard. Depersonalization. ↗

— Garth Stein

#prison #art

If you find yourself about to complain, think of your many blessings and rejoice! Don't give the devil a ride today, because then he'll want to drive full-time. So, kick his attitude of complaining spirit out of your blessed zone. Don't give the devil NOTHING!! ↗

— Anita R. Sneed-Carter

#complaining #devil #rejoice #zone #attitude