#stand

We must be the ones to re-define the world class standards of excellence ↗

— Fela Durotoye

#leadership #nigeria #standards #leadership

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#illusion #life #understanding #life

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#marriage #stand #strong #two #well-built

I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand. ↗

— Craig Silvey

#jasper-jones #knowledge #life #understanding #life

Be the one to stand out in the crowd. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#life

Sometimes you have to put yourself in other people’s shoes to really understand the hardships of their souls. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#kindness #life #love #philosophy #self-improvement

The wave is the signature of every experience of life. By understanding the nature of waves and their characteristics, and applying that understanding to our lives, we can navigate life with a little more grace. ↗

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

#life-experience #navigate #understanding #waves #waves-of-grief

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#epiphany #hate #love #understanding #love

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#love #people #standards #value #virtue

And without understanding, could each properly love the other? ↗

— Anita Brookner

#understanding #love