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Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future. ↗

— Paul Orfalea

#leadership #management #business

Success in any field, but especially in business is about working with people, not against them. ↗

— Keith Ferrazzi

#business

Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God. ↗

— Brother Lawerence

#business

[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first to the sacred garments and monastic profession before thou gavest thyself to God. And for that in this one thing thou shouldst have had little trust in me I vehemently grieved and was ashamed. For I (God [knows]) would without hesitation precede or follow thee to the Vulcanian fires according to thy word. For not with me was my heart, but with thee. But now, more than ever, if it be not with thee, it is nowhere. For without thee it cannot anywhere exist. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#celibacy #convent #dignity #following #grief

If Sawtooth could put words to the brambled knot forming in his throat, he would tell her: Girl, don't go. I am marooned in this place without you. What I feel for you is more than love. It's stronger, peninsular. You connect me to the Mainland. You are my leg of land over dark water. ↗

— Karen Russell

#out-to-sea #love

love is but an echo in her head ↗

— David Cantor

#echo #love #lyric #sequined-mermaid-dress #song

When you try to persistently abolish hatred, at that very moment...you lose focus on love. ↗

— Toba Beta

#focus #hatred #love #love

She loved him, even though it was so hard to love anybody else after loving my dad. I think I knew this before she did. ↗

— Margaret McMullan

#hard-to-love-anybody-else #it-was-so-hard #knew-this-before-she-did #love #loved

And I didn't tell mom what happened. She'd already warned me that bad things could hide in the most unlikely places. ↗

— Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

#dangerous #realization #love

It's me being me making you be you... ↗

— Nitya Prakash

#romance #love