#po

Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-loving #grace #helping-people #high-school #kind-women

She hasn’t got it all figured out...far from it, in fact. But she loves God and she loves to dance…and she’s her own “Better Half.” The bravest woman I know? She is the reason I do what I do. She is The Single Woman. She’s me…and she’s you. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#better-half #bravery #completeness #dance #dancing

different among the others You're at the center of my universe ↗

— patrick cruz

#love

Love is a word, another kind of open. As the diamond comes into a knot of flame I am Black because I come from the earth's inside take my word for jewel in the open light. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black-poet #essayist #feminist #ny-laureate #teacher

We have written too many books about love and so few about hunger and poverty; that is why we need to wake up and leave stupidity behind. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#hunger #love #poverty #stupidity #written

All it takes for evil to succeed is for a few good men to do nothing... ↗

— Edmund Burke

#responsibility #society #inspirational

Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss. We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends. It is laughter. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#secret #secret-weapon #weapon #worry #inspirational

It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land. Yes we can! ↗

— Barack Obama

#political #inspirational

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#investments #people #political #inspirational

And now here was Arabella, making him feel worse. Maybe that was what she always did; maybe she always made him feel worse, and he'd never really noticed before. Maybe what seemed like the ordinary rough-and-tumble of marriage, combined with hard work and London, was something simpler: the fact that added to any equation, Arabella made it worse. ↗

— John Lanchester

#relationships #support #marriage