#er

Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don’t let stress steal your joy. ↗

— Sarra Cannon

#writers #writers-on-writing #beauty

Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership. ↗

— Earl Monroe

#crawford #goes #leadership #me #most

One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves. ↗

— Earl Monroe

#edison #i #invented #many #moves

National honor is the national property of the highest value. ↗

— James Monroe

#honor #national #property #value

She's got mascara smeared underneath her eyes, some of which is still on my pillowcase. Her hair is in disarray. Her ponytail holder in on the sheet beside her. She looks like hell. A beautiful hell ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#beauty

She tried to break from his hold, and he tightened his grip. “You’re safe. I killed the rogues.” The woman stilled and searched his face, the wildness still heavy in her blue eyes. “You’re a wolf.” He smiled and nodded. “And you’re a tiger.” “A white tiger.” To match her white-blond hair. “And a beautiful one. ↗

— Lia Davis

#ashwood-falls #lia-davis #romance #shapeshifter #beauty

Not for the first time, I wonder what it would feel like that, to be so beautiful that you don't even realize people are watching you, to be so confident that you don't even have to worry about being nervous or feeling self-conscious. I've spent what seems like my whole life trying to pretend I'm that way. What would it be like to have it just come naturally? ↗

— Lauren Barnholdt

#love #love-story #teen #teen-drama #teen-fiction

What do I miss, as a human being, if I have never heard of the Second Law of Thermodynamics? The answer is: Nothing. And what do I miss by not knowing Shakespeare? Unless I get my understanding from another source, I simply miss my life. Shall we tell our children that one thing is as good as another-- here a bit of knowledge of physics, and there a bit of knowledge of literature? If we do so, the sins of the fathers will be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation, because that normally is the time it takes from the birth of an idea to its full maturity when it fills the minds of a new generation and makes them think by it. Science cannot produce ideas by which we could live. ↗

— E.F. Schumacher

#learning #literature #purpose #science #beauty

It’s such an amazing awakening to realize that nothing in this universe happens TO YOU, 100% happens FOR YOU. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#change #inspirational #life #motivational #universe

And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it. ↗

— Paul Harding

#confusion #death #life #souls #tinkers