#do

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#able #also #friends #hate #his

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#creativity #enemy #everything #guts #imagination

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#dozen #get #handle #how #ideas

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#found #hurt #hurts #i #more

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. ↗

— John Lennon

#timelessness #wisdom #age

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#name-of-the-wind #patrick-rothfuss #wisdom #anger

Like many faeries she knew, he was sculpture-perfect, but instead of being wrought of shadows like those in her court, this faery had a tangled feel to him. Shadow and radiance. He didn‘t look much older than her, until she saw the arrogance in his posture. Then, he reminded her of Irial, of Bananach, of Keenan, of the faeries who walked through courts and crowds confident that they could slaughter everyone in the room. Like chaos in a glass cage. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#faery #radiant-shadows #love

In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred,It is a paryer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present. ↗

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#freedom #sacred-p- #beauty

I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you. ↗

— John Green

#inevitable #love #oblivion #pleasure #simple

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#business