#stop

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top. ↗

— O. J. Simpson

#complete #day #excuses #making #responsibility

Believe in yourself and stop trying to convince others. ↗

— James De La Vega

#believe in yourself #convince #others #stop #trying

The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception. ↗

— Olivia Williams

#blind #body #brain #breathing #daughter

What is the matter with these people, these people who won't stop fighting, won't stop hurting each other long enough to see that a body is a thing of beauty, is a miracle of rivers and oceans and islands and continents contained within itself? That the brain is divided into two hemispheres, each symmetrical, each perfect, each with its own system of waterways. These people of war should be shown an x-ray of an intraparenchymal hemorrhage, of a hemorrhage in an eighteen-year-old girl's brain, a girl named Ivy. Take a look at that, people of war. See, you should not hurt each other, and this is why. Without you ever even trying, this is what can happen to your body, your beautiful body, and your brain, your beautiful symmetrical brain, and your heart, and your soul. ↗

— Alison McGhee

#hurt #people-of-war #stop #waterways #beauty

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#change

Inner peace and inner bliss are eternal dimensions deep within which we can experience anytime we are prepared to surrender and accept life exactly how it is. ↗

— Christopher Dines

#manifest-your-bliss #experience

Freedom breeds uncertainty; uncertainty invites chaos. ↗

— R.J. Leahy

#noir #science-fiction #freedom

Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#friends #friendship #knowing-your-worth #love #not-settling

Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#hate #inspirational #love #shatter-me #young-adult

No,” he agreed. “You’re not. She never caused me this agony.” What could I say to that? The way he was looking at me was making my head feel funny. Was making me feel funny and not just in that oh God I just almost died way. Christophe leaned in. His mouth was a mere centimetres from me. “She never made me think I would die of heart failure. She never, never made me fear for her this way. ↗

— Lili St. Crow

#jealousy #funny