#valley

Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn’t change her looks. She’d never be six feet tall. She’d never look like a supermodel. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#superficiality #supermodels #sweet-valley #worthless #change

Lynne looked as if she were really having fun, Elizabeth realized. With a smile on her face and a sparkle in her eye, Lynne Henry was actually almost pretty! ↗

— Francine Pascal

#shallow-appearances #sweet-valley #beauty

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#children #death #deepest #even #follow

If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#across #beautiful #each #exactly #four

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#continue #energy #firmly #get #goal

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#cleverness #come #down #green #heights

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low. ↗

— John Wooden

#high #life #low #peaks #too

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks. ↗

— Neil Young

#got #life #peaks #see #through

Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#company #many #place #silicon #silicon valley

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#awe-inspiring #clearly #far #far away #friend