#lis

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature. ↗

— Jacqueline Susann

#concerned #i #literature #novelist #should

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#about #adjusts #change #complains #expects

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#community #incrementalism #world #yourself #change

I stopped. She was bleeding after all. Perfect lines crossed her wrists, not near any crucial veins, but enough to leave wet red tracks across her skin. She hadn;t hit her veins when she did this; death hadn't been her goal. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#inner-pain #lissa #page- #death

I find out a lot about myself by sleeping. Dreams, they are who I am when I’m too tired to be me. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dreams #funny #humor #life #sleeping

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions. ↗

— James Madison

#experience

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #flaws #freedom #gender #identity

Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes. ↗

— George Carlin

#freedom-of-religion #religion #tolerance #freedom

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#novelist #science-fiction #humor

Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing. ↗

— Matthew Kelly

#individualism #life #p #life