#sf

...the wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you know the price I pay for loving you ... ↗

— John Geddes

#eyes #past #present #price-of-love #scars

Forget boys and read a good book. Or study. When you're twenty-five and ranking in the big bucks, men will be falling all over you're a successful professional woman. ↗

— Stephie Davis

#read #study #successful #men

It takes your knowing to decide on your going. If you know where you are going, you will keep going because you have already seen yourself gone ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#decision #destination #destiny #don-t-give-up #extra

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#satisfaction

You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that. ↗

— Charles Baxter

#malcontents #satisfaction #change

Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who I am into who I was meant to become. Only when God's transforming power touches me can I begin to live the simpler, freer, fresher, more creative, more patient, more passionate, more sacrificial, riskier, rawer, more real, more love-driven life God intended for me all along. That transformation is what awaits all who dare to enter the story of God. As Paul wrote, 'Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think' (Romans 12:2) ↗

— Steven James

#creativity #free #god #jesus #passion

Lasting change cannot occur without transformation of the heart. ↗

— Nathan W. Morris

#inspiration #money #success #transformation #change

El camino más fácil no es siempre el mejor. ↗

— T. Lobsang Rampa

#spanish #vida #spanish

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

Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer's, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death ... And here's the magic. You're different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book." [Why Reading is Dangerous, Spirit Magazine (Southwest Airlines), February 2008] ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#reading #transformation #death