#ren

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do. ↗

— Joan Jett

#advantage #believe #born #get #i

Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you. ↗

— J.I. Packer

#strength #faith

The Lord did not bless us with any children of our own, so we gathered up little waifs whom we thought would be neglected and would not be cared for unless we brought them into our family. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#bless #brought #cared #children #did

I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette about 25 years ago and my sister lives here now, I always claim it as home. ↗

— Emmett Kelly

#ago #always #circus #claim #going

Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again. ↗

— Moira Kelly

#bring #children #creative #imaginative #just

At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and torment any more than I could give up joy and beauty ↗

— Cate Tiernan

#evil #good #beauty

Life changes so quickly. feeling grateful to be around such wonderful people to strengthen and grow with. ↗

— Riley Keough

#changes #feeling #grateful #grow #life

We are designed with a dreaming brain and a hopeful spirit; it is our nature to envision the life of our dreams. And while dreaming comes easy to us, we must never forget that it takes strength, dedication, and courageous action to bring that dream to life ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#courage #dreams #goals #inspirational #life

Right now, I couldn't have cared less if someone had waltzed across the room in a large flower costume with a sign saying GET YOUR BLACK TULIPS HERE. Every nerve in my body was on man-alert, screaming, "incoming! ↗

— Lauren Willig

#funny-and-random #lauren-willig #spies #spy #funny

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#busy #children #i #looked #schedule