#nag

Money, like emotions, is something you must control to keep your life on the right track. ↗

— Natasha Munson

#life

Management, a science? Of course not, it's just a waste-paper basket full of recipes which provided the dish of the day during a few years of plenty and economic growth. Now the recipes are inappropriate and the companies which persist in following them will disappear. ↗

— Leon Courville

#management #society #science

The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable. ↗

— William Hedgcock Webster

#high #i #i think #important #manageable

So how did you get this job, anyway?' I asked. 'My science teacher.' 'Why'd he pick you?' 'For my brains and good looks, obviously.' 'Yeah, right. My social studies teacher picked me, but I can't really figure out why." 'For your brains and good looks, obviously.' 'Um, thanks.' Had Aaron just complimented me? Wow. ↗

— Polly Shulman

#bragging #compliments #teenagers #science

What defines you isn't how many times you crash but the number of times you get back. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#teenagers #you #youth #youth

To have more peace, as well as more time, start by letting go of the notion that time can be manipulated. Then, let go of the idea that it confines you. Instead, set out to use the time that is there for its true and best purpose – as the space within which you can live your life to the fullest. ↗

— Michelle Passoff

#time-management #life

I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about... only out of time to write it in. ↗

— Rayne Hall

#writer #writing #writing-life #life

It's so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it's harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear of jinxing it, bringing the nightmare back down on our heads. ↗

— Harriet Brown

#family #struggle #teenage-years #family

I didn’t look at Thanet. I couldn’t because he would see the hurt on my face. “He loves you,” Thanet said. “He’s hurting and it’s not just the Quinn thing. It’s being away from you and wondering if you’re hurting, too. Or if you’re having too much fun to hurt. What he really needed was to laugh, though. So we laughed…until he cried.” That undid me. I looked at Thanet with so many questions on my lips. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#dating #family #glass-girl #henry-whitmire #high-school

You sure are quick to strip, boy,” Dad said, clearly disapproving. “Lemme get this straight. ↗

— Shannon Delany

#wolf #love