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I guess the whole world is made up of things coming together and things falling apart, ↗

— Emily Wing Smith

#world #love

Funny to think that every day you have ever lived is a yesterday, and you will never live one single tomorrow. But then again, every day is a today when you’re living it. ↗

— Mik Everett

#inspirational #life #philosophy #today #funny

Constant exposure to evil leads to tolerance. That’s how people are able to withstand its good effects so permissively. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #good #humor #toleration #funny

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#contempt #mother #over-indulgence #upbringing #home

The dinosaurs died so that chat rooms may flourish ↗

— Tom Robbins

#dinosaurs #fossil-fuels #home

What must I do now?” Mrs. Muller considered her silently for a while. “You are still a child. You must go where you are told and do as you are told. But it won’t always be so. Soon you will be in charge of yourself. Until that time: Be aware. Listen. Look. Touch. Smell. And remember. But for now, you must go home. ↗

— Masha du Toit

#children #do-as-you-re-told #growing-up #home

Sometimes what we think we need isn't what we need at all, and what gets thrown in for good measure is that which fills our hearts. ↗

— Philip Gulley

#home

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up! ↗

— Mark Twain

#humor #mind #humor

[On Oscar Wilde:] "If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#epigrams #humor #oscar-wilde #tribute #wit

Gentlemen, nerd girls are the world’s greatest underutilized romantic resource. ↗

— John Green

#john-green #nerds #romance #humor