Istimela Quotes & Sayings

The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character. Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything. — Orison Swett Marden

Let it go, let it leave, let it happen. Nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway. — Rupi Kaur

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. — Thomas Aquinas

An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous — Thomas Overbury

They call me the trippy king. — Juicy J

His stepmother -wearing a nightgown for comfort and a flowered hat for looks- had spent her days sitting in their parlor window in Baltimore drinking sherry out of a coffee cup. — John Cheever

I'd been kissed before. Many times. There were awkward and sloppy kisses, those tension-fraught moments of fumbling intensity as a teenager. There were more skilled kisses, passionate and intentional. There were kisses that stole my breath, kisses that merged seamlessly with the shedding of clothes and the joining of bodies. But never, before this moment, had there ever been a kiss that stole my will to pull away, that devoured my capacity for thought, that removed my ability to resist, to feel anything but the kiss. — Jasinda Wilder

Keeping busy is the hardest part. When I find myself still, clear of thoughts, I can still feel you holding me. — Karen Quan

I finally meet a guy who's interesting and who seems to have a half-interest in me and it is TOTALLY the wrong time and place. — Lisa Tawn Bergren