#ling

It was unnerving. She'd looked at him and had the uncontrollable urge to weep. Thus far she'd managed to control her emotions. Thank God. She didn't even want to imagine what he would think of her if she started weeping for absolutely no reason. ↗

— Debbie Macomber

#crying #debbie-macomber #emotions #feelings #the-trouble-with-angels

Never do a single thing in the anticipation to prove something to someone who has hurt you. If someone has hurt or offended you (whoever that person may be), never perform anything or strive for anything in your life with the mind of proving something to that someone/ to those people. May nothing that you do be done with any thought of them in mind. There is nothing that needs to be proven. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#empowerment #inspirational-quotes #life #life-and-living #offenses

I'm the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be. ↗

— Bret Hart

#sports #wrestling #inspirational

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#inspirational #on-fiction #storytelling #writing #inspirational

I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#stories #story #storyteller #storytelling #tale

Be just the balm you need to heal what ails you ↗

— Heather Davis

#inspirational #love #inspirational

A Man who has never lied to a woman has no respect for her feeling. ↗

— William Nsubuga

#feelings #hear-quotes #humor #inspirational-quotes #love

Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel. His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits of passionate melancholy were for Uline. It was hard not to resent the older girl. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#jealousy #love #jealousy

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. ↗

— Harvey S. Firestone

#development #growth #highest #leadership #people

And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#healing #life