#thou

The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#been #depths #flame #found #generous

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#choices #easy #enjoyable #environment #life

Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served. ↗

— Clayton Christensen

#chance #done #exception #expressed #gratitude

People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create. ↗

— Christo

#because #beings #bigger #build #create

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. ↗

— Charles Churchill

#damn #envy #led #never #read

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#life #nothing #result #shot #without

I always thought I should be treated like a star. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#i #i always #like #should #star

I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#after #aids #been #check #children

A home without books is a body without soul. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#books #home #soul #without

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#back #i #into #just #lifted