Happy Birthday to Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author who started a war.

Happy Birthday to Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author who started a war.

Happy Birthday to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Happy Birthday to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. ~ G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, 1893

Thank you Jess Bussard- (via cowgirl)

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure…than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

~ Theodore Roosevelt (via cowgirl)

Love this, the whole speech.