#wi

Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience is what you get from not reading it. ↗

— Common

#experince #insurance #wisdown #business

No tiredness can destroy hope like death can, as the absolute fatigue of life. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#death

I wasn't going to play by her rules. I was going to change them myself." -Avalin Marsh "Sometimes you have to look through someone else's eyes to see the best things about yourself." -Albert Huntington "It's worth a shot, it's always worth a shot. Even if it's your very last bullet." -Lyle McCormick "I was always the invisible one, Avalin. It was you who made sure I was seen." -Prajna Sarasvati "Let's hope we can subdue her before it comes to methods that involve injecting people with pointy things, yes?" -Madeline Gray ↗

— A.L. Collins

#change

Ego and pride is a two headed twist. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#pride #twist #twisted #death

No one is defined by a single act," Frederic said. "Whether it was years ago or weeks ago. We're all given chances to change, to make up for things we've done wrong. It's how we handle those opportunities that really matters. ↗

— Christopher Healy

#wisdom #change

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#julius-caesar #mark-antony #william-shakespeare #death

There are women who make things better... simply by showing up. There are women who make things happen. There are women who make their way. There are women who make a difference. And women who make us smile. There are women of wit and wisdom who- through strength and courage- make it through. There are women who change the world everyday... Women like you. ↗

— Ashley Rice

#strength #wisdom #women #change

I’d once again see that bob of blonde hair back on my pillow, that pink hot smile beaming toward me as I heroically win her heart in some kind of Count of Monte Cristo or Great Gatsby-esque gesture… you know minus the long imprisonment or swimming pool death! ↗

— Tom Conrad

#apocalypse #end-of-the-world #gatsby #heroes #heroic

…If anything else, all I ever did was love you…. ↗

— Beth Fantaskey

#dating

And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and savaged everywhere he could. But for the boy who had somehow turned into that man, the boy whose gentle hand had comforted her childhood hurts, the boy whose frightened voice had cried out to her at the end of his life, as if he wondered why he had gotten lost inside himself, as if he realized that it was too, too late to get out again. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#death #greed #grief #growing-up #lost