#ali

And I can see Russia from my house. ↗

— Tina Fey

#sarah-palin #humor

I can last two months on a good compliment. ↗

— Mark Twain

#self-realization #humor

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#healing #reading #life

The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing. ↗

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#influence #patience #sufism #life

Love is a quality, not a quantity. ↗

— Vanna Bonta

#qualities-of-life #quality #life

Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#personality #humor

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#distilled #i #i wonder #like #poets

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life. ↗

— Charles Vest

#american #american life #begun #economic #education

To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#determination #focus #frustration #goals #obstacles

You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape – the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes – we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#dark-humor #dragons #morality #humor