#well

The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself. ↗

— Neal A. Maxwell

#latter-day-saints #lds #maxwell #mormon #neal

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#best #differences #learn #listen #listening

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

#book #charm #contains #dwells #echoes

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#harm #kindness #mercy #smile #smiling

Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force. ↗

— Elaine Maxwell

#elaine-maxwell #force #inspiration #inspiring #me

And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months. ↗

— Brandon Routh

#also #australia #body #couple #effort

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#also #assured #end #follow #free

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#agree #been #before #colin #ever

News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all. ↗

— Gay Talese

#impact #might #news #well

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior. ↗

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

#artists #big #big heart #comic #dwells