#eve

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right? ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#even #family #how #imagined #life

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#caught #chase #comes #dreaming #find

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#every #fill #important #individual #place

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#alike #chiefly #endures #however #intensity

I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything. ↗

— Sessue Hayakawa

#anyway #back #bow #bowing #each

I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#atmosphere #big #black #classes #dance

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered. ↗

— Tom Hayden

#any #clear #did #electoral #ever

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts. ↗

— Joseph Haydn

#composed #efforts #great #i #never

I am Tina Yothers and I'll never be anyone different. ↗

— Tina Yothers

#anyone #different #i #i am #never

There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#again #almost #always #character #characters