#nin

If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness. ↗

— M. Esther Harding

#being #both #brought #consciousness #feminine

The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it. ↗

— Humphrey Lyttelton

#double #double meaning #expression #front #got

Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#growing #keep #like #our #priorities

Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why. ↗

— Wendy Shalit

#femininity #modesty #women #beauty

Never restart a journey and use the same road that failed you before. ↗

— Dennis E. Adonis

#courage #failures #life #new-beginning #progress

If you are ready to trade the hollow self-made beauty of this world for the glorious Christ-built beauty of a set-apart young woman, this is where it all begins. Denying self, taking up your cross, and following the Lamb wherever He leads. In other words, letting go of all preoccupation with self: our comfort, our pleasure, our agenda, our popularity, our ability to gain the world's approval, even our own dreams and desires. And, as Paul did, treating all those things as rubbish for the excellence of the knowledge of Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings (Philippians 3:7-9). ↗

— Leslie Ludy

#denying-self #letting-go #philippians #selflessness #set-apart-femininity

I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up into my pores during the day, and at night—in the moments before I pass off into sleep—ideas explode into my head like fireworks. There is no greater joy than the burst of solution to a problem. Incredible that anything could happen to take away this bubbling energy, the zest that fills everything I do. It's as if all the knowledge I've soaked in during the past months has coalesced and lifted me to a peak of light and understanding. This is beauty, love, and truth all rolled into one. This is joy. ↗

— Daniel Keyes

#learning #life #meaning #truth #beauty

There is a picture of me in their heads, a picture of someone I don't know yet. She is not the chubby girl with the braces and bad perm. She is not the girl hiding in the bathroom at recess. She is someone new, a blank slate they have named beautiful. That is what I am now: beautiful, with this new body and face and hair and clothes. Beautiful, with this erasing of history. ↗

— Amy Reed

#new-beginnings #beauty

I wouldn't know where to start." "He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to." "Thoreau?" "Harry Emerson Fosdick... ↗

— Kami Garcia

#chooses #leads-to #road #start #beauty

Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#everything #great #how #knees #legs