#comp

Saying something is far too simple is a doubter's way or trying to make the world more complex so he won't have answers. ↗

— Adam P. Knave

#complex #life #simple #world #life

You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#loved #relationships #love

Having good intentions isn’t enough when actions fail; you also need some bad intentions so that you look competent. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #intentions #funny

Yeah, well, wish in one hand, crap in the other, and see which fills up first ↗

— S.A. Bodeen

#s-a-bodeen #the-compound #wit #funny

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness. ↗

— Criss Jami

#companion #companionship #different #extroversion #fear

Compromise is a stalling between two fools. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#foolishness #fools #humor #humor

The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort. ↗

— C. J. Cherryh

#ethic #family #feed #fight #fighting

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven. ↗

— Francis Beaumont

#companions #earth #faith #fly #heaven

If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins. ↗

— Yann Martel

#empathy #imagination

It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime. We should all smile more often. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #kindness #smile #inspirational