#ect

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#perspective #science #humor

Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#h #humor

I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good. ↗

— Luciano Pavarotti

#better #done #even #good #i

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean! ↗

— Bob Marley

#life #live #perfection #life

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. ↗

— Donald Miller

#people #perfection #relationships #life

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love #love

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#love #respect #self-deception #truth #love

Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth. ↗

— Anne Sexton

#love #poetry #love

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#respect #love

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#amity #love #love