#we

I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#came #carried #case #casualties #comes

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it. ↗

— Miranda Richardson

#attitude #depending #laugh #los #los angeles

Once I had a steel job for half of a day. I never went back to collect my pay. ↗

— Art Rooney

#collect #day #had #half #i

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them. ↗

— Patricia Richardson

#attention #balance #because #being #between

The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldn’t bring ourselves to say. —Frederick Weisel, Teller: A Novel ↗

— Frederick Weisel

#frederick-weisel #love #teller #truth #weisel

It's not that you should never love something so much it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled It's not a weakness- It's your best strength- ... I know it in my heart- Right now- Todd Hewitt- There's nothing we can't do together- And we're gonna win- ↗

— Patrick Ness

#the-ask-and-the-answer #love

..there isn't a single goddamned word in the entire dictionary that can describe this point between liking you and loving you, but i need that word. I need it because I need you to hear me say it. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#hopeless #love

A single smile from her could make his entire being burn. One touch from her hand and he was undone. It was terrifying to think of how much power this one person had over him. How one single gesture from her could affect him so profoundly. (Sin thinking about Kat) ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#love #power-of-love #scared #sensual #love

I'll tell you this. Leaving that which you love breaks your heart open. But you will find a jewel inside, and this precious jewel is the opening of your heart to all that is new and all that is different, and it will be the making of you-if you allow it to be. ↗

— Jacqueline Winspear

#leaving #love

We have the greatest power through love that can be known. It overcomes everything with its fierce and steady truth, if you can continue to stand in it. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#power #stand #standing-your-ground #steady #truth-fierce