#ding

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#reading #solitude #life

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight. ↗

— Richard de Bury

#delightful #reading #love

An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life. ↗

— Hervé Le Tellier

#life-lessons #reading #life

The journey is the mystery…the destination the answer. If you don’t have a happy ending yet, you have not finished reading the right book. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#life #love #understanding #life

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#life #reading #refuge #life

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it. ↗

— Miranda Richardson

#attitude #depending #laugh #los #los angeles

Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise. ↗

— Patricia Richardson

#attention #believe #creative #creative ways #finding

...love is suffering - that's the happy ending... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #suffering #love

We have the greatest power through love that can be known. It overcomes everything with its fierce and steady truth, if you can continue to stand in it. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#power #stand #standing-your-ground #steady #truth-fierce

Never fall in love with someone that won't fight for you, because when the real battles begin they won't pull your heart to safety, but they will their own. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#fairytale-love #rescuing-you #saving-you #standing-up-for-who-you-love #unrequited-love