#my

Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#arms #attend #away #flowering #hold

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#giving #i #i think #in other words #myth

I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow? ↗

— Pierre Loti

#break #could #determination #duty #fast

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#billionaire #brains #brainy #broker #cries

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#astonishment #egypt #exercised #fascination #hesitation

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#been #creations #fossils #had #i

Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter. I definitely would not have done it if she hadn't passed away. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#after #away #became #before #company

Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That's my life motto. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#ashamed #emotion #feel #happy #life

I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#being #being myself #busy #i #just

Where I am today... I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#am #best #day #downs #hope