#pta

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. ↗

— Mae West

#generally #i #resist #temptation #unless

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#form #schizophrenia #socially #writing

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance. ↗

— Paul Tournier

#being #feel #having #heart #lovable

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor. ↗

— William Adams

#captain #carried #company #done #emperor

We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ. ↗

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

#congenial #employ #hardest #most #people

A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic. ↗

— Pat Buckley

#atheist #buddhist #catholic #god #good

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#never #succumb #temptation

To-night I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#act #alarm #am #captain #department

I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing in this universe as hell, except maybe in our own terrified minds. Because if even one broken and limited human being could experience even one such episode of absolute forgiveness and acceptance of her own self, then imagine—just imagine!—what God, in all His eternal compassion, can forgive and accept. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#compassion #forgiveness #god #love #people

I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names. ↗

— Wayne Newton

#dealers #first #gamblers #i #knew