#within

I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16. They tried to get her to have an abortion and she refused. So, my 'mama' adopted me, which was really her great aunt, which was really my great-great aunt, who was named Viola Dickerson. I was told that my mother was my sister. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#adopted #aunt #family #get #great

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#after #communication #critics #form #gave

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within. ↗

— Caspar David Friedrich

#bodily #bring #close #darkness #effect

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#declaim #feet #freedom #guns #like

It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill. ↗

— Charles Tupper

#bill #could #discuss #duty #idle

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. ↗

— Aristotle

#angry #anybody #become #degree #easy

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#book #frozen #must #sea #us

I’m not saying it will always be easy because we are human. Two people in love will always have uphill battles but it’s how you handle those challenges that truly matter. ↗

— Kathryn Vance-Perez

#challenge-inspiration-motivation #love #inspirational

Happiness springs up from within. Do not seek it without. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#happy #inspirational #within #without #inspirational

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

#almost #broad #broad range #daily #days