#lan

what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you. ↗

— Mark Twain

#experience

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#beauty #conceive #i #i can #melancholy

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#having #innocence #language #like #long

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#around #bunch #dependent #else #grapes

I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned. ↗

— Michael Bay

#always #feel #funny #funny stuff #i

The budget enforcement rules of the 1990s were an important part of getting the budget back into balance. It was done on a bipartisan basis. Those pay-as-you-go rules were tested and they worked. We are now in a one-party system, and we have thrown them out. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#balance #basis #bipartisan #budget #done

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else. ↗

— Miriam Beard

#astonish #atlantic #bizarre #else #go

No language is rude that can boast polite writers. ↗

— Aubrey Beardsley

#language #polite #rude #writers

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. ↗

— Francis Beaumont

#lovely #melancholy #nothing #sweet

We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#breaks #country #end #england #hand