#lit

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#ever #girl #i #little #little girl

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#capacity #cheerfulness #courage #disappointment #face

In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#explorers #mortality #reality #travelers

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel of your fears. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#decisions #fears #hope #i #i hope that

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#grow #i #little #more #much

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality. ↗

— Julie Taymor

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One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#college #deal #goes #good #good deal

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#civility #costs #everything #nothing

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. ↗

— Edwin Way Teale

#between #difference #plus #spider #telephone

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#courage #legs #soul #stability #valor