June 2012
Hope, however, does not consist in crossing one’s arms and waiting. As long as I...
– Paulo Freire (via makingthechoice)
Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will...
– Mark Victor Hansen (via justbesplendid)
lostinamerica:
“There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to “mean” horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.”
-Teddy Roosevelt, 1913
Waiting
Before I came to Africa, I was warned that you can’t rely on things to function as you expect them to. Meetings are days late, people flake, and it’s just something that is accepted. Today was my first encounter with the distinctly African phenomenon of waiting.
I was supposed to teach dental health today, and the headmistress gave me a schedule that said I was to start at 8:15. She also told on...
Waiting
Before I came to Africa, I was warned that you can’t rely on things to function as you expect them to. Meetings are days late, people flake, and it’s just something that is accepted. Today was my first encounter with the distinctly African phenomenon of waiting.
I was supposed to teach dental health today, and the headmistress gave me a schedule that said I was to start at 8:15. She...
May 2012
I’m gonna go against the grain and I’m going to suggest that the next time you...
– John Mayer, Hollywood Bowl, August 22nd, 2010 (via digitalhearts)
I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone...
– Oscar Wilde (via worldofpossibility)
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of...
– Samuel Johnson (via sincerelymeganella)
The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to...
– Laura Ingalls Wilder (via myquotelibrary)
Nobody ever told me how to deal with things like this. Shouldn’t letting go be...
– John Green and David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson (via anditslove)
If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then...
– ― Martin Luther King Jr. (via justbesplendid)
Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that...
– Og Mandino (via happythings)