#me

Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in installments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#achievements #believe #believe-and-achieve #dare #dare-to-win

Everything that's worth having is some trouble… ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#l-m-montgomery

But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall. They hold in their creases the ability to change one's life, organically, forever. Even when you shake them out, they've left permanent wrinkles in the fabric of your soul. ↗

— Julie Gregory

#pain #painful-childhood #painful-memories #change

I've invaded the walls of the asylums with my ink pen. The way they look at mental illness won't be the same again ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#mental-illness

There I am then back in the saddle, in my numbed heart a prick of misgiving, like one dying of cancer obliged to consult his dentist. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#simile

It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#humour #metaphor #simile #simile

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose? ↗

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

#inspirational

Stay with me. Always. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss #mockingjay #peeta #romance #katniss

Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessantly, it's just the perceptions that we have are governed by people with self-interest and are not inalignment with the health and safety of us as individuals or as a planet. ↗

— Russell Brand

#consumerism #love #socialism #spirituality #change

Even in my time, we knew that men were not in charge. Oh, they might bluster as if they were. But when it came down to it, we women bore much of the influence. Often, my father would make some grand pronouncement in the evening. And the next morning, he had changed his mind. After a while, I realized that it was my mother who had changed it, quietly, in the night. ↗

— Alex Flinn

#alex-flinn #change