#d

(...) and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death was Augustus Water. ↗

— John Green

#friendship #grief #love #death

I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get. ↗

— Lloyd Banks

#because #corners #everybody #feel #get

I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore. ↗

— Lloyd Banks

#dark #i #i see #myself #overlooked

Life has to end,' she said. 'Love doesn't. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#life #love #death

Is it fair your life burns so short and bright? Death had asked. "No such thing as fair," Frank told himself. "If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#frank-zhang #life #son-of-neptune #death

Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' Doctor: 'Lots of planets have a north! ↗

— Steven Moffat

#rose-tyler #the-doctor #the-doctor-and-rose #rose

My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before,—a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#dreams

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#oppression #defeat

A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#comfort #disciple #discipline #faith #give

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail? ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#timidity #confidence