#vic

What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#life-lessons #life

Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#revenge #victories #life

The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them. ↗

— Jamaica Kincaid

#life #the-past #life

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#cassandra-clare #clockwork-princess #death #dying #i-can-t-even

The great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. ↗

— George Eliot

#conviction #life

Only God can take our failures and turn them into victories. ↗

— Evinda Lepins

#god #life-quotes #victories #life

Prom night can be a special night, if you let it be. I know you think it's for losers and something that popular kids do because they are boring people with porcelain hearts who don't know what it means to be lonely. But you're wrong. Prom is a chance for everyone to try oral sex. Go for it. ↗

— Eugene Mirman

#humor #parties #prom #school #sex

Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#being-yourself #life #life

I've tried to explain to people that I don't 'love' writing any more than I 'love' breathing. It's something I do and it's something I need. If I thought about it as a love/hate thing, I probably would have quit long ago. And then died. ↗

— Allison M. Dickson

#writing-life #life

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance. ↗

— Aberjhani

#creativity #harlem-renaissance #history #horror #humanity