#lis

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#follow-your-bliss #success #success

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#student #teacher #teacher

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#epigram #tabloid-journalism #wisdom #wisdom

I need you,ʺ said Lissa. ʺI hear that from women a lot,ʺ said Adrian. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#last-sacrifice #lissa-dragomir #women

An appreciative listener is always stimulating. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#style

I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#sarah-dessen #true

But then you slammed a door handle into my gut. And when a girl does that to a guy; it means she likes him. ↗

— Lisa McMann

#dream-catcher #janie #lisa-mcmann #wake #dreams

Blake smiled radiantly. ʺMay I call you Vasilisa?ʺ ʺYou can call me Lissa.ʺ ʺYou can also,ʺ added Christian, ʺlet go of her hand now. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#christian #lissa #sacrifice

I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#listening #pretending #acting

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. ↗

— Rumi

#celaleddin #inadequacy-of-words #inner #language #mawlana