#ideal

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. ↗

— George Sand

#among #common #each #ideal #life

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#count #cynic #determines #done #idealist

What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real. ↗

— Francis Herbert Hedge

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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth? ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#conditions #earth #expect #graves #how

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. ↗

— Jules Renard

#cat #exists #ideal #sitting

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#ideal #imagination #work

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

#friendship #ideal #remaining #two #while

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home. ↗

— Victoria Secunda

#beyond #both #conflicting #daddy #daughter

Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say that I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one ↗

— John Lennon

#dreams #idealism #nationalism #peace #religion

It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#angst #idealism #injustice #status-quo #youth