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He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful." ... Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#last-words #beauty

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#baseless #beauty #fear #fears #going

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#burden #fitted #great #joys #last

I was in the Air Force a while and they had what they call "policing the area." That's where you looked around and if there's anything wrong here, there, anywhere, you took care of your own area. And I think that's a pretty good thing to go by. If everyone just takes care of their own area then we won't have any problems. Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there. And look around you and see what needs to be changed. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#change

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#evolved #i #men #none #out

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#length #makes #observations #out #talent

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#dark #earth #hall #heaven #her

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#invisible #lover #muses #object #our

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#extreme #partial #runs #simplicity

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#another #closely #cure #egotism #excessive