#ship

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent. ↗

— John H. Johnson

#creative #must #persistent #succeed

In friendship, bond not with a shallow man. ↗

— Akinari Ueda

#wisdom #friendship

When you hold a grudge, you want someone else’s sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two rarely meet. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#hurt #inspirational #life #relationships #sorry

When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith. ↗

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#american #american people #before #calling #cries

We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#death #experience #relationships #death

Stop living within the confines of how others define you! You weren't created to live their life; you were created to live yours - so LIVE it! You can reignite that fire within and bring the passion back into your goals, dreams, ambitions, careers, and relationships by reclaiming control of your own life. Be unapologetically YOU! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#be-yourself #dilute #dreams #happiness-passion-goals #inspirational

Love encompasses so much, reaches so far, and heals so deeply, that any attempt to describe it, no matter how poetic, only dilutes it. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#heals #love #poetic #relationships #soul-mates

It is important not only to read God's Word but to interpret God's world in the light of the Word. ↗

— Cindy Jacobs

#truth #change

If someone isn't in your definition of "gorgeous" or "beautiful", it doesn't give you the right to call them ugly. ↗

— Abdullah Bashir

#friendship #inspirational #love #beauty

Deep down under where his heart resided, strangled up in thorny vines of guilt, anger, fear and longing, there lay something deeper in him, something that he couldn’t see but she could. ↗

— Carol Oates

#hope #humanity #love #relationships #anger