#is

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts. ↗

— Paul Valery

#his #infinitely #man #more #than

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. ↗

— Voltaire

#country #his #need #serves #well

I kissed her again, tenderly touching my lips to hers. “Now what?” “Kiss the kids, and then you and I can celebrate eleven years of in-your-face-we-made-it. How about that? ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#walking-disaster #beauty

Publish and be damned. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

#publish

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#himself #knows #others #who #wise

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#body-image #diet-industry #eating-disorders #self-esteem #weight

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#habit #hard #success #success is

Pride and excess bring disaster for man. ↗

— Xun Zi

#disaster #excess #man #pride

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#being #call #exercise #fact #farce

Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#beauty