#yours

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#brains #choose #decide #direction #feet

What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others. ↗

— Alexander Severus

#done #never #others #unto #would

Well, to tell you the truth, I've thought of it often and often before, but he's such devilish good company is Huntingdon, after all - you can't imagine what a jovial good fellow he is when he's not fairly drunk, only just primed or half-seas-over - we all have a bit of a liking for him at the bottom of our hearts, though we can't respect him.' 'But should you wish yourself to be like him?' 'No, I'd rather be like myself, bad as I am. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#flaws #individuality #imagination

She realized, when relationships failed to last, it was not because love was no longer present, but because people had stopped believing in themselves and in their partners. ↗

— Christina Westover

#christina-westover #inspirational #literary-quote #love #poisoning-sylvie

He who is not contended with what he has, would not be contended with what he would like to have. ↗

— Socrates

#inspirational

To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express itself in its own way is a "Natural Man". ↗

— U.G. Krishnamurti

#intelligence

Intelligent and beuty... Nobody use ↗

— Jisela Sejas r

#intelligence

Jealousy shows weakness and we must be strong to except ourselves for who we truly are. ↗

— Sarah van Waterschoot

#strength #jealousy

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other. ↗

— Jane Austen

#writing #life

When the winds of life is pushing you back, THAT'S when you push forward the hardest. ↗

— Yvonne Pierre

#don-t-give-up #push-yourself #strength #life