#ok

Just give me a pen and I will change the world. ↗

— Unknown

#change #pen #writing #change

You Have the Power to Fulfill Your Dreams! ↗

— Tae Yun Kim

#ipad #ki-energy #kindle #martial-arts #personal-development

Losing your love hurts more than playing with fire. ↗

— Leydi Morfa

#fire #lilly-flame #love #romance #love

Art, he said, was a controlled madness...He said that books weren't made of themes, which you could write essays about, but of images that inserted themselves into your brain and replaced what you were seeing with your eyes. ↗

— Steven Millhauser

#art

This is the body's nurse; but since man's wit Found the art of cookery, to delight his sense, More bodies are consumed and kill'd with it Than with the sword, famine, or pestilence. ↗

— John Davies of Hereford

#eating #famine #food #meat-is-murder #pestilence

Well, every art requires appreciation, doesn't it? I mean people who paint, sculpt, or write books want an audience. that's the reason they're doing it for, and it's the same when you're a cook. You need somebody who savours it, not one who just says, 'Oh it's not bad. ↗

— Margaret Powell

#gourmet-cuisine #art

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude. ↗

— Julia Child

#failure #fear #inspirational #julia-child #love

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror. ↗

— Ken Keyes Jr.

#outlook #attitude

Sometimes our Biggest Nightmare turns out to be our Biggest Gift. And it all comes down to our attitude. Life will throw us curve balls and disappointments, even heartbreak. But ultimately we can choose if we're going to be Bitter or Better for the experience. ↗

— Kathryn Orford

#self #self-awareness #self-confidence #self-empowerment #self-esteem

Just handling this ocean of different books—new and used, in and out of print, famous and forgotten—it was literature as this giant mosaic of texts and experiments and attitudes. I think it’s just very liberating to break out of a great man’s theory of history. I guess I’ve always liked working from that sense of—what would you call it?—license that the margins permit. I always just visualize myself writing books that were meant one day to be dusty, forgotten volumes being encountered by intrepid browsers in a used bookstore. It was a much less freighted way to think about trying to enter the conversation than to imagine I had to write The Great Gatsby. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#attitude