#gh

...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days. ↗

— Henry James

#inspirational

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#inspirational #laughter #inspirational

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels. ↗

— Elizabeth Berg

#inspirational #weight-loss #inspirational

If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term. ↗

— David Mitchell

#interesting #losing #perspectives #thoughtful #winning

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#cause #champagne #heels #high #high heels

To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true. ↗

— John Ruskin

#inspiration #knowledge #light #sight #understanding

I was as big as I have ever been. I had a personal trainer and was working out. I was feeling good. I was muscular. I had never weighed more than 155 pounds. ↗

— Marc Wallice

#big #ever #feeling #feeling good #good

I've bespelled this locket, for you; my own, my mate. The day has come when death forced us to part. You must know that I for you, forever, I shall wait. So until we meet again I hold your love safely within my heart. Remember, your oath was to temper strength with mercy. No matter how long apart we shall be, I hold you to that oath eternally... eternally... ↗

— P.C. Cast

#dragon-s-oath #house-of-night #death

Don’t ever get old. With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one’s death looks better and better. The only thing to hope for is that you get so senile that you think you’re twenty years old again. That would be fun to relive. ↗

— Camilla Läckberg

#death

It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light. ↗

— Hugh Prather

#light #inspirational