#ear

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#everyone #governs #his #learns #nobody

Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations. ↗

— Zoe Weil

#education #humane #mogo #nation #patriot

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare #shakespeare

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#earning #living #nobly #only #think

I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#you #learn

Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it! ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#year #waiting

The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors. ↗

— John Kennedy Toole

#horror

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought. ↗

— Stephen King

#eddie #fear #grownups #horror #it

And the snow that fell onto the roof in winter... it fell softly... softly... and it covered the house, the armchair, the books, the children's voices. It covered Anna and Abel, covered their parallel world, and everything was finally, very, very quiet. ↗

— Antonia Michaelis

#anna-and-abel #anna-leemann #crying #depressing #heartbreaking

She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself. ↗

— Iain Pears

#individuality #search #self-awareness #self-reliance #dreams