#ect

To a great mind, nothing is little. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#intelligence #observation #perspective #intelligence

Only a fool can be happy. For happiness consists of two contradictory elements: contentment and pleasure. Enjoy pleasure and you have no contentment; be content and you have no pleasure. For this reason happiness is conceivable only for those who enjoy themselves without thinking that they will always want more and thus be discontented, or for those who are content without thinking that they have no pleasure. Whoever reflects can never be happy, unless he is a fanatic and thus blinded…thus exercising control over his intelligence with his feelings, instead of the other way round ↗

— Marcellus Emants

#pleasure #reflection #intelligence

Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild. ↗

— James Allen

#mind #intelligence

A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#intellect #life-lessons #reality #life

I want to create a seventeen-syllable word that encompasses the human condition, and then use that word to form the world’s most perfect haiku. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humanity #life #perfection #poetry #relationships

I've been in love with you since the very beginning. You asked why there isn't anyone else in my life, and the reason... is you" - J.D. ↗

— Julie James

#practice-makes-perfect #romance #life

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#intellectual #political #willful-ignorance #life

Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#feel #loss #pain #rejection #sad

I'm poor, not homeless. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#life #perfect-chemistry #life

The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#mirror #reflection #life