#fact

Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We have larger apples and better cotton and faster and more beautiful machines. This makes us the greatest country in the world. Unemployment is a myth. Dissatisfaction is a fable. In preparatory school America is beautiful. It is the gem of the ocean and it is too bad. It is bad because people believe it all. Because they become indifferent. Because they marry and reproduce and vote and they know nothing. ↗

— John Cheever

#delusions #dissatisfaction #fables #indifference #jokes

Be kind to one another and seek beauty in all you do. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#fact #kind #love #passion #beauty

When people can afford necessities in life, an increase in income dones not result in a significantly happier life. ↗

— Richard Wiseman

#change

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#character #decisive #factor #individual #life

Čovjek je proklet, i žali za svim putevima kojima nije prošao. ↗

— Meša Selimović

#life-questions #regrets #death

In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest. ↗

— Martin Luther

#example #high-priest #intercession #satisfaction-for-sin #sin

Some animal rights activists are demanding vegetarianism, even veganism now, or nothing. But since only 4 or 5 percent of Americans claim to be vegetarians, 'nothing' is the far more likely outcome. I ask these activists to weigh the horrors of Bladen County's industrial farms and the Tar Heel slaughterhouse against the consequences of doing nothing to alleviate the hour-to-hour sufferings of its victims. Is not a life lived off the factory farm and a death humanely inflicted superior to the terrible lives we know they lead and the horrible deaths we know they suffer in Bladen County today? ↗

— Steven M. Wise

#animal-welfare #animals #cafos #factory-farms #suffering

There shall be no more death, Because we have already seen all that, Its old and we are tired of it, And now we need something new, And this new thing is Eternal Life ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#fearless #harmlessness #inspirational #motivational #death

He had a respect for facts maybe this was one. ↗

— Anne Carson

#fictions #respect

He was one of your wicked, fascinating men. After he got married he left off being fascinating and just kept on being wicked. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#matter-of-fact #dreams