#bs

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#courage #glory #honor #courage

Think of the most discouraging thing that you are currently carrying or the biggest project you can’t seem to tackle. Forget about how it happened, forget about how you got there, just look at the clock, and before that number changes, do one little thing to make it better. After you do, enjoy your moment of victory, and then do it again. In less than the time it takes you to blink, the past will burden you no more. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#changing-ourselves #goals #our-pasts #overcoming-negativity #overcoming-obstacles

Dating should really be more like furniture store commercials....I would love to' pay no interest for 6 months ↗

— Josh Stern

#commercials-furniture #dating #store-humor #dating

I’m 30-years-old, and I still can’t get out from under my father’s shadow. He’s really tall, so maybe I’ll just ask him to move over a few feet. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#age #bizarre #family #father #feet

Nothing is ever certain. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#cruel #death #lies #phrases #sad

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#accept #here #i #me #same

No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#death #depression #fun #greed #suicide

Stick Boy liked Match Girl, He liked her a lot. He liked her cute figure, he thought she was hot. But could a flame ever burn for a match and a stick? It did quite literally; he burned up quick. ↗

— Tim Burton

#death

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying. ↗

— Albert Camus

#death #dying #life #living #death

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#life #philosophy #science #death