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When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we could accept any exchange for it seems to be a cheapening of our lives. And we can set a watch over our affections and our constancy as we can over other treasures. ↗

— George Eliot

#feelings #value #life

Man is an end in himself. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#life #objectivism #philosophy #success #life

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best. ↗

— James Harvey Robinson

#goal #our #simply #stated

And these men, for whom life has no repose, live at times in their rare moments of happiness with such strength and indescribable beauty, the spray of their moment’s happiness is flung so high and dazzling over the wide sea of suffering, that the light of it, spreading its radiance, touches others too with its enchantment. Thus, like a precious, fleeting foam over the sea of suffering arise all those works of art, in which a single individual lifts himself for an hour so high above his personal destiny that his happiness shines like a star and appears to all who see it as something eternal and as a happiness of their own. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#art

love and friendship are a respect of the beauty of these feelings when they hurt deeply the respect stopped ↗

— Adele Mandez

#beauty

Because you’re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence. ↗

— Green John

#beauty

If she had anything to say about it, the pageant would be called off and the dignity of Sweet Valley womanhood would be preserved. The truth was, no one seemed to care as much about the beauty pageant issue as she did. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#sweet-valley #beauty

Oh, I can never get enough. Which, incidentally, is what your sister said when-- ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#innuendo #will-herondale #sisters

Just that what happens today or next week or next year isn't necessarily the way things are always going to be. As soon as you settle into a routine, life throws you a curveball. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't. ↗

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#life

To get where you want to be, you must first know where you are. ↗

— Deborah Day

#life #life-lessons #purpose-goals #life