#era

To make 2013 (or any other)your year, keep it simple: 1) Count your blessings first 2) Whatever you did last year, Do it better 3) Go step by step, One day at a time. 4) Create/make your own opportunities. 5) Believe in your abilities at all times, 6) Qutting is not an option. Keep Going. 7) Finish what you started ↗

— Pablo

#begin #belief #believe #blessings #discipline

Funerals, I had decided, are for the living. ↗

— John Green

#funerals #true #death

Generally I'm against regulation. ↗

— Dorothy Denning

#generally #i #regulation

I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them were giving him joy beyond measure. ↗

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

#japan #japanese #japanese-literature #japan

It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important. ↗

— Vera Wang

#afford #anything #bit #dress #embrace

The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#philosophy #faith

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#era #interview #magazine-interview #quote #time

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#achievement #among #asserted #commonly #english

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#being #famous #got #heavier #i

The bad news is the butcher’s dead. The good news is there’ll be no need for a funeral, and I’ve got enough meat to last for weeks. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#cannibalism #death #food #funeral #humor