#kin

The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#again #around #because #did #expected

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong. ↗

— Horace

#doing #mankind #many #more #portion

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain. ↗

— Horace

#count #everyday #fortune #gain #going

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. ↗

— Horace

#careless #dislike #happy #industrious #people

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance. ↗

— Horace

#alert #arrest #before #carefully #decay

The man is either mad, or he is making verses. ↗

— Horace

#mad #making #man #verses

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. ↗

— Horace

#hut #impartial #kings #knocks #pale

And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them and survived them. Often the walking dead from now on, shell-shocked, hearts ruptured, stumbling through the remainder of their lives without anything left inside of them but blood and organs, impervious to pain, having learned nothing except that the worst things did, in fact, sometimes happen. (Mystic River) ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#shell-shocked #survivors #the-walking-dead #death

'Ted' made me nearly cry. It's kind of like 'Marley and Me.' ↗

— Niall Horan

#kind #like #made #marley #me

I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people. ↗

— Lena Horne

#kinder #made #myself #other #people