#life

In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. ↗

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

#actual life #begins #enterprise #every #faith

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#about #any #away #create #crisis

Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures. ↗

— Alessandro Del Piero

#ambition #between #brings #comfortable #everything

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. ↗

— Plautus

#conduct #death #delay #fangs #grinning

I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive. ↗

— Pitbull

#i #into #life #my life #negatives

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do. ↗

— Rick Pitino

#deal #get #i #involved #just

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be. ↗

— Ann Plato

#contented #education #fit #future #god

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#did #dissipation #face #gave #give

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees. ↗

— Munshi Premchand

#education #life #literacy #need #successful

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. ↗

— Max de Pree

#beautiful #beautiful things #both #dignity #diversity