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The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking. ↗

— George Ade

#about #after #enjoy #european #three

The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#gift #leadership #leadership

No, writing has not changed me for the better at all; I have merely used up part of my restless, conscienceless youth. What value to me will these discontented pages be? The book, the vow, are worth no more than one is worth oneself. One can never be sure of saving one's soul by writing. One may go writing on and on with a soul already lost. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#our-ancestors #the-non-existent-knight #change

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#good #graceful #intelligent #loved #pretty

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#affirming #draw #examine #into #look

Practice without improvement is meaningless. ↗

— Chuck Knox

#meaningless #practice #without

I leaned my face into his palm and he looked at me like it was the first time he ever saw me. I felt my heart burst. I wanted him to kiss me. I didn’t care about what he owned, or what issues he had. I knew if we kissed, it would change us both. Even worse, I wanted to say I loved him. ↗

— Mercy Cortez

#love #romance #change

I don't remember too many rounds where you get shots given to you. Usually, ones are taken away. ↗

— Stuart Appleby

#get #given #i #many #ones

Never lie when the truth is more profitable. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

#more #never #profitable #truth #truth is

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps. ↗

— George Konrad

#believe #courage #dangerous #maybe #number