#stance

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows. ↗

— Jennie Churchill

#forever #shadows #substance #throwing

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#circumstances #i #i am #i do #know

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#driving #evidence #excel #faith #getting

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

#distance #ear #eyes #impossible #laugh

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#external #heighten #imperfect #poetry #value

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity. ↗

— James Hillman

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The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten. ↗

— James Hillman

#body #choice #circumstances #curse #forgotten

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. ↗

— Dee Hock

#clothing #follows #forms #future #past

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. ↗

— Dee Hock

#ephemeral #form #substance