#yin

The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness. ↗

— Clayton Christensen

#brought #christ #deep #fact #father

I love playing around with vintage fabrics and lace. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#fabrics #i #i love #lace #love

Some designers retain a sense of humour about what they do, but others are deathly serious and have no life outside of it; they're lying awake night after night constructing dresses in their heads. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#after #awake #constructing #deathly #designers

But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#could #exploring #figure #frontier #gather

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration. ↗

— Serena Williams

#down #gun #keep #playing #shooting

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#benefit #between #each #friendly #friendship

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#back #i #into #just #lifted

There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor. ↗

— Frank Howard Clark

#explain #help #more #nothing #than

Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids, Which haven't faded yet. In their nights, fragrantly resinous, Entwined with delightful mystery, They will breathe in her springlike Extraordinary beauty. But in a whirlwind of sound and fire, From her shing head they will flutter And fall—and before her They will die, faintly fragrant still. And, impelled by faithful longing, My obedient gaze will feast upon them— With a reverent hand, Love will gather their rotting remains. ↗

— Anna Akhmatova

#death #dying #love #transience #beauty

What does it mean to be the best? It means you have to be better than the number two guy. But what gratification is there in that? He's a loser—that’s why he's number two. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#best #bizarre #competing #competition #competitor