#peri

The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts; it gives you what you demand with your actions. In essence, you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#are #inspirational #motivational #success #thoughts

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#big #canvas #challenge #could #deliberately

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#monkey #science #truth #zoo #experience

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#against #experience #theory #will

Walk away from gossip and verbal defamation. Speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#encouragement #gossip #happiness #life #experience

Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience. ↗

— Kim Edwards

#experience

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#equal #even #evident #half #hour

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#being #equal #evident #far #half

I like to experiment a lot and invent things. ↗

— Kathy Ireland

#i #invent #invent things #like #lot

We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#experience #family #homes #kept #line