#tent

You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that. ↗

— Charles Baxter

#malcontents #satisfaction #change

If you really want to focus on something, says Castellanos, the optimum amount of time to spend on it is ninety minutes. "Then change tasks. And watch out for interruptions once you're really concentrating, because it will take you twenty minutes to recover. ↗

— Winifred Gallagher

#concentration #focus #change

Mother nature changes her looks for the same reason any woman changes her looks—to be noticed.  ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#looks #mother-nature #richelle #richelle-goodrich #women

Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in installments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#achievements #believe #believe-and-achieve #dare #dare-to-win

I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money, nor her office nor her influence. Her theft of these things, therefore. has taken away nothing of my own. Mother, my roof is the stars. My house is human goodness. My body is clothed. My stomach is full. And the thirstier part of me, my soul, drinks gladly from the pool of my books. So much for me. I am just fine. ↗

— Walter Wangerin Jr.

#love

We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and legends are responsible. ↗

— Albert Camus

#existentialism #probably-bullshit #love

I love attention. I can't stand not having it. It just has to be the right kind. ↗

— Adam Levine

#cute #love

Nothing shocks me anymore...except pure intentions. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#motives #motivational

If God gave you contentment then you would never pursue your life purpose. It is your restlessness that pushes you to take action, change your life and seek more of what you could possibly be. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#misery #needs #change

Happy is still Happy, with or without the Ever After. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-single #contentment #happily-ever-after #happiness #happy