#tina

When you lost sight of your path, listen for the destination in your heart (Allen Walker, D-gray Man) ↗

— Katsura Hoshino

#inspirational #life #manga #purpose #inspirational

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to ­music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space. Be patient." [The Guardian, 25 February 2010] ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#distraction #inspiration #openness #problem-solving #procrastination

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#fear #forgiveness #gtd #laziness #lazy

No one has free will until they are an adult, and by then the choices that were made for them, have already set them on a course that gives limited freedom in the choices to be made. ↗

— J.D. Stroube

#course #destination #fate #free-will #freedom

...the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#intelligence

Wait!" What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled bug inside my cup. You got to smell it first. It's the proper way to cup coffee." Cup coffee?" Taste it." What? Are you the coffee police or something? ↗

— Justina Chen

#jacob #justina-chen-headley #north-of-beautiful #terra #beauty

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#cause #constancy #good #obstinacy

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#brothers #called #chicago #community #entire

You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise. ↗

— Mike Davidson

#artistic #being #compromise #designer #destination

Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#destination #happiness #inspirational #life #motivational