#ness

Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#defense #forgiveness #love #truth #anger

But if as you read this book you're saying to yourself: "I'd rather be miserably married than be alone." Well young lady, take out your clown shoes and buckle your seat belt - it's going to be a very bumpy one-woman circus. ↗

— Osayi Osar-Emokpae

#loneliness #marriage #singleness #inspirational

But wasn't that always the way. It's never something huge that changes everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you're busy focusing on the big picture. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#business

Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky. ↗

— John Muir

#john-muir #nature #wilderness #change

It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God. ↗

— Brother Yun

#weaknesses #change

Life is happy when u make it. Its boring when u hate it ↗

— Sreeja Pai

#hate #inspirational #life #inspirational

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#career #inspirational #self-help #women #business

And then I remember this morning and I wonder if it really happened or if I dreamed it. It was nice. And weird. And tender. I'm not used to tender. It's a fossil, that word. Conditions changed and it died out. Like the woolly mammoth. It just couldn't live in the same world as dick box. Ho dog. Or wiener cousins. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#romance #tenderness #vulgarity #young-adult #young-love

Sometimes it's easy to walk by because we know we can't change someone's whole life in a single afternoon. But what we fail to realize it that simple kindness can go a long way toward encouraging someone who is stuck in a desolate place. ↗

— Mike Yankoski

#homelessness #change

Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives. ↗

— Deborah Day

#flexable #open-mind #open-mindedness #positive-thinking #change