#less

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. ↗

— Renata Adler

#bored #boredom #cruel #cruelty #great

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. ↗

— Renata Adler

#cruel #lot #people #sleep #unless

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away. ↗

— Archilochus

#boast #cast #courage #field #find

Me? I didn’t believe in hopeless. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#dimitri-s-point-of-view #hopeless #inspiring #richelle-mead #rose-hathaway

My chest tightens: seeing him so upset breaks my own heart. 'Don't you ever wish you could make that bit go away?" I say, feeling angry at the past. 'That you could erase those painful memories, forget they every happened, just remember the happy times you had together?' 'You must never say that,' he reprimands sternly. 'But why not?' I look at him in surprise. 'Because it's the bad memories that makes you appreciate the good ones. Don't ever wish them away. it's like your nan always used to say, "You need both the sun and the rain to make a rainbow". ↗

— Alexandra Potter

#happiness #inspirational #life-lessons #love #memories

Ne yazık ki insan kendi hapishanesinin anahtarını bulamıyor, hatta çoğu zaman asıl mahpusu kendisi olduğunu bile anlayamıyor. ↗

— Kürşat Başar

#life-lessons #inspirational

But because things change. And friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#friendship #inspiration #life-lessons #move-on #change

The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy. ↗

— Harold Russell

#any #authority #away #civil #constitutional

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent. ↗

— David Eagleman

#discovered #even #go #into #much

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#dumb #even #everything #into #just