#lowly

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. ↗

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ↗

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#centuries #civilization #course #customs #difficult

It is my goal to learn as much about the people I'm surrounded by. I am slowly widening who I am close with, and at the same time, growing further away from others. ↗

— Josh Schwartz

#am #away #close #further #goal

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#even #false #lowly #often #only

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#completely #different #form #formed #found

My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#american life #average #average people #create #developing

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#devil #get #joy #life #motion

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#develop #develops #fade #gradually #intimacy

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#anything #crushing #exactly #how #i

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