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I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.
Michelle Obama (via claireaskew)
Work is not what we do for a living, but what we do with our living…The opposite of work is not leisure or play or having fun, but idleness – not investing ourselves in anything.
William Bennett
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Socrates
When a great adventure is offered, you don’t refuse it.
Amelia Earhart (via wsouldier)
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
General George S. Patton

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
E. B. White, 1976


(via ivyinspired)

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”

E. B. White, 1976

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(via saltytears)

A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (via tattoolit : grecianurn)