#ss

I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#life

When you believe you reflect what is holy and good, you can see more that is good in every stage of your life. (319) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#good #goodness #holiness #holy #life

All these years I had been sustained by an illusion-happiness through victory- and now that illusion was burned to ashes. I was no more happier, no more fullfilled, for all my achievements. Finally I saw through the clouds I saw that I had never learned how to enjoy life, only how to achieve. All my life i had been busy seeking happiness, but never finding it or sustaining it. ↗

— Dan Millman

#business

Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity. ↗

— Brother Lawrence

#practice-presence-of-god #business

Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#career #inspirational #self-help #women #business

I spent the weekend after our date wishing I could stab him with my fluffy-duck pen and staring at the phone hoping he'd call. Dating is a very tricky business. ↗

— Cath Crowley

#teen #business

Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig out a little place that's only yours. ↗

— J. Courtney Sullivan

#women #business

Real danger is nothing more than just living. Of course, living is merely the chaos of existence, but more than that it's a crazy mixed-up business of dismantling existence instant by instant to the point where the original chaos is restored, and taking strength from the uncertainty and the fear that chaos brings to re-create existence instant by instant. You won't find another job as dangerous as that. There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it. ↗

— Yukio Mishima

#business

Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#self-esteem #self-improvement #business

There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#faith #fears #focus #perspective #suspense