#tan

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#belly #big #concealing #consequences #exposed

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ↗

— Og Mandino

#any #beginning #care #dead #everyone

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. ↗

— Og Mandino

#because #careers #comes #countless #defeats

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can. ↗

— Og Mandino

#back #cold #danger #doing #gusto

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug. ↗

— Edouard Manet

#begin #got #haven #humbug #instantly

The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted. ↗

— Edouard Manet

#been #broken #constantly #feels #i

There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#fall #gerry #hanging #i #just

We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#besides #contemporary #many #may #other

It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#else #explain #just #someone #understand

When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#articulate #being #confidence #deeply #how