#ash

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#cheerfulness #clouds #daylight #fills #flash

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#bashfulness #mere #merit #without

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#friends #jefferson #never #planters #rich

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#freed #his #jefferson #slaves #upon

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#chicken #egg #everything #get #key

But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#church #falls #farmland #i #lot

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#i #poems #time #washing #writing

I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when you get fixated on trying to do something too accurate, it becomes more washed out and less what you intended it to be. So I think each time the challenge for me is to try and reinvent a little bit. ↗

— Gary Allan

#becomes #best #bit #challenge #each

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion. ↗

— Mary Austin

#except #fashion #land #life #lived

So many details came into focus. The shape of his lips, the line of his neck. “I’m not dangerous,” I breathed. He brought his face toward mine. “You are to me.” And somehow, against all reason, we were kissing. I closed my eyes, and the world around me faded. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#bloodlines #cute #dangerous #kissing #love