“The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.”
—Warren Bennis
January 2010
“People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.”
—Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“Christina, I could promise to hold you, and to cherish you. I could promise to be there in sickness and in health. I could say till death do us part. But I won’t. Those vows are for optimistic couples, the ones full of hope. And I do not stand here, on my wedding day, optimistic or full of hope.
I am not optimistic. I am not hopeful. I am sure. I am steady. And I know. I am a heart man. I take them apart. I put them back together. I hold them in my hands. I… am a heart man.
So this, I am sure, you are my partner, my lover, my very best friend. My heart beats for you. And on this day, the day of our wedding, I promise you this. I promise you to lay my heart in the palm of your hands. I promise you… me.” —Preston Burke - Grey’s Anatomy (via simtan) (via quote-book)
I am not optimistic. I am not hopeful. I am sure. I am steady. And I know. I am a heart man. I take them apart. I put them back together. I hold them in my hands. I… am a heart man.
So this, I am sure, you are my partner, my lover, my very best friend. My heart beats for you. And on this day, the day of our wedding, I promise you this. I promise you to lay my heart in the palm of your hands. I promise you… me.” —Preston Burke - Grey’s Anatomy (via simtan) (via quote-book)
“Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt
“It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
—Anne Sexton
“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm….as you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others”
—Audrey Hepburn (via quote-book)
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) (via weallseekthetruth)
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The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
Another Country, 1962
” —James Baldwin
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
—Epictetus
Do you miss or long for anybody on quiet nights?
At times, quiet nights make me remember my relatives who’ve already passed on. People whom I can never see again and who only remain in my memories.
Recently, during the long nights that I’ve had to face, especially in the dead of night with only me and my laptop awake, I wonder to myself if in the future I’d have someone to spend quiet nights like that with. Call me a hopeless romantic or a big fan of my romance novels if you will. Haha, thoughts like these have been popping up a lot recently.
Hope that answers your question~ :3
“When you love someone you celebrate their successes and help them keep moving forward, even if that means you get left behind”
—S. Linton (via quote-book)
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
—henri nouwen (via quote-book)
“The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.”
—Elizabeth Drew
“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.”
—Roseann Barr
“Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?”
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (via thoughtsdetained) (via quote-book)
King must have had a Jesuit education!
