#yours

When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#crisis #victims #life

Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#easiest way #hours #living #long #make

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#give #something #toward #work #yourself

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#gospel #gospels #like #reject #you

If the gooseberry said: 'I haven't the heart to be a real proper gooseberry because if everyone were a gooseberry the world wouldn't continue to exist' this would be a stupid argument and the world would be deprived of a useful fruit. If you are called upon to be a 'gooseberry' in all the senses--pleasant or ludicrous--of the word, you should be one with all your heart and soul, without a backward glance. ↗

— Pierre Ceresole

#inspirational #yourself #inspirational

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others. ↗

— Max Lerner

#also #any #hurt #others #yourself

It's really not about the money. It's just about educating yourself. ↗

— Lisa Leslie

#educating #just #money #really #yourself

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#please #think #wrongly #you #yourself

Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#also #around #being #economic #emotional

Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#assuredly #especially #go #god #his