#ily

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#anyone #god #me #through #work

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#anything #being #being yourself #get #into

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#background #bin #business #comes #company

Shame is the demon that keeps many of us trapped in our pain; healing comes when we gain the courage to confront our demon(s). ↗

— J'son M. Lee

#family-drama #family-love #family-relationships #family-values #guilt

The letter was destroyed, but its final paragraph is inside of me. She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with the chance to live my life again. I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. When I was your age, my grandfather gought me a ruby bracelet. It was too big for me and would slide up and down my arm. It was almost a necklace. He later told me that he had asked the jeweler to make it that way. Its size was supposed to be a symbol of his love. More rubies, more love. But I could not wear it comfortably. I could not wear it at all. So here is the point of everything I have been trying to say. If I were to give a bracelet to you, now, I would measure your wrist twice. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#age

Today the family is being attacked and defended with equal vehemence. ↗

— Mark Poster

#being #defended #equal #family #today

They say that a good cook can ignite sparks by the way he kisses. The way I see, just because a guy can turn on the stove doesn't necessarily make him a good cook. ↗

— Stefanie Powers

#cook #good #good cook #guy #him

Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor. ↗

— Lee Ritenour

#angle #borrows #brazilian #country #dear

We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#beta #customers #developers #easily #external

My stepfather, John O'Hara, was the goodest man there was. He was not a man of many words, but of carefully chosen ones. He was the one parent who didn't try to fix me. One night I sat on his lap in his chair by the woodstove, sobbing. He just held me quietly and then asked only, "What does it feel like?" It was the first time I was prompted to articulate it. I thought about it, then said, "I feel homesick." That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#family #feelings #homesick #words #courage