#are

I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do and I ain't never gonna do it any different. I don't care who likes it and who don't. ↗

— Buck Owens

#any #care #different #gonna #i

It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. ↗

— Margaret Truman

#back #career #fully #greatness #grow

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#beautiful #beautiful city #city #cut #down

Shared laughter is erotic too. ↗

— Marge Piercy

#shared #too

Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is in, complex it out - forever. ↗

— Joan Marques

#life #simple #life

The soft rush of taxis by him, and laughter, laughters hoarse as a crow's, incessant and loud, with the rumble of the subways underneath - and over all, the revolutions of light, the growings and recedings of light - light dividing like pearls - forming and reforming in glittering bars and circles and monstrous grotesque figures cut amazingly on the sky. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#light #new-york #times-square #beauty

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#denied #peaceful #rarely

Every pain is a lesson. ↗

— Frank Delaney

#lesson #lessons #pain #perseverance #the-matchmaker-of-kenmare

You always rebel what your parents want you to listen to. ↗

— Keifer Thompson

#listen #parents #rebel #want #you

Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources. ↗

— William Trogdon

#come #deriving #free #most #night