#rough

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#book #every #every time #get #i

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. ↗

— Will Rogers

#half #life #our #rushed #save

Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#about #been #buy #does #hamas

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#cannot #faults #friend #friendship #him

At 6:15 she was standing on her front porch watering gardenias and watching another line of thunderstorms split and go around her. The same thing happened almost every day. Some days they came so close all she could smell was the rain. The wind whipped up dust from the fields until it drove like buckshot into the shuddering mesquites, and Clara Nell started to pray. 'Jesus,' she whispered. 'Jesus, Jesus....' But the only thing that came out of the sky was her topsoil. Every day the wind took a little more, and it hadn't rained in almost a year. ↗

— Andrew Geyer

#drought #emotional-pain #farming #heat #rural-life

It’s not what happens to you that is most important, but what happens IN you because only you determine what happens through you.” ~ Keith Craft ↗

— Mary Banos

#through-you #love

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#does #man #motives #noblest #stupid

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs. ↗

— Marianne Faithfull

#feelings #i #show #songs #through

Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#co-operative #great #labor #means #money

Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way. ↗

— Betty Smith

#strength #strength-through-adversity #survival #survival