#mis

At times what you expect and what happens don’t match. The faster you accept and adapt to what happened & work towards creating what you believed, that what you expected gets created in a whole new way..! ↗

— Sujit Lalwani

#expectations #life #motivation #optimism #positivity

Resolutions are most often empty promises for those who have an abundance of dreams, but refuse to wake up and live them. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#goals #promises #resolutions #success #dreams

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors? ↗

— Émile Zola

#pessimism #regrets #zola #dreams

Aren't you ready to experience the emotional side of a D/s relationship? For a real taste I suggest On Becoming His - one woman's emotional journey into being owned. ↗

— Cassandre Dayne

#cassandre-dayne #d-s #dominant #master #on-becoming-his

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#pessimism

One of my missions was to teach. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#teach

When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#misattributed #perseverance #sanity #perseverance

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still. ↗

— Criss Jami

#determination #first-impression #fool #foolish #genius

No one had ever called me unnatural before, except for the time I put ketchup on a taco. But seriously, we'd been out of salsa, so what else was I supposed to do? ↗

— Richelle Mead

#richelle-mead #rose-hathaway #vampire-academy #blood

Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to the bidding of their leader. All you have to do is tell them they're being attacked and denounce the pacifists for somehow a lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.' I think that was Jefferson. Oh wait. That was Hermann Goering. Shoot." [Hosting the Peabody Awards for broadcasting excellence at the New York Waldorf-Astoria, June 6, 2006] ↗

— Jon Stewart

#iraq-war #jefferson #misquote #war #iraq