#ann

Men loved her but she was the woman, all women loved to hate. She was Bridget Jones gone wrong. She knew the price of everything and the value of nothing. ↗

— Annette J. Dunlea

#annette-j-dunlea #irish-writer #love

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#jaime-lannister #men

Se há tantas cabeças quantas são as maneiras de pensar, há de haver tantos tipos de amor quantos são os corações. ↗

— Liev Tolstói

#inspirational #love #tolstoi #inspirational

Then [good manners] must be inspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspirational

Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future. ↗

— Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#living-in-the-present #the-future #the-past-cannot-be-altered #inspirational

Seen from that future time, when every commodity the human mind could imagine would flow from the industrial horn of plenty in dizzy abundance, this would seem a scanty, shoddy, cramped moment indeed, choked with shadows, redeemed only by what it caused to be created. Seen from plenty, now would be hard to imagine. It would seem not quite real, an absurd time when, for no apparent reason, human beings went without things easily within the power of humanity to supply and lives did not flower as it was obvious they could. ↗

— Francis Spufford

#economics #marxism #planned-economy #socialism #imagination

It's okay,” he said. “We're together.” He didn't say you're okay, or we're alive. After all they'd been through over the last year, he knew that the most important thing was that they were together. She loved him for saying that. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#annabeth-chase #heroes-of-olympus #inspirational #love #percy-jackson

Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#faith #inspiration #prayer #faith

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#angry #cannot #make #others #since

The rainy days in life are what make us treasure the sunny days. ↗

— Suzannah Daniels

#daniels #ghostly-encounter #inspirational #life #rainy-days