#tent

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. ↗

— Confucius

#desire #door #excellence #full #keys

...she lost twenty minutes sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees, smiling into the pretty glow and imagining herself a contented farmer's wife waiting for her man to come in from the fields. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#daydream #fire #wife #imagination

The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot. ↗

— Criss Jami

#criticism #envy #good-intentions #inspirational #intentions

Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things. Their language has been lost. But not the gestures. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#bark #gestures #hear #hearing #listen

Slow and steady wins the race, only and only if the rabbit, competent, sleeps a while. But, fast and consistency always win it, even if rabbit is awaken. ↗

— Syed Ather

#consistent #inspirational #rabbit #race #sleep

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#jealousy #malcontents #merely #success is #thermometer

They were sorry, they were saying with their bodies, they were accepting each other back, and that feeling, that feeling of being accepted back again and again, of someone's affection for you expanding to encompass whatever new flawed thing had just manifested in you, that was the deepest, dearest thing he'd ever-- ↗

— George Saunders

#george-saunders #love #tenth-of-december #forgiveness

Perhaps we can recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them. ↗

— Patti Digh

#change #patterns #pay-attention #change

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion. ↗

— William Safire

#become #companion #contents #familiar #hold

All that you have been is but a small part, a very mere bit of the potential of your life. ↗

— Jennifer DeLucy

#inspirational #life #potential #inspirational