#lt

My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failures. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#imagination #intellect #loyalty #shallow #faith

It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#becoming #big #father #felt #giving

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#changes #constitutes #distasteful #friends #growing

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks. ↗

— Joe Paterno

#confidence #discipline #heart #key #locks

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits. ↗

— Anna Pavlova

#although #fail #find #fruits #give

She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet. ↗

— Jefferson Smith

#body-image #bones #dieting #fantasy #feet

I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat. That was until I became one... ↗

— Cathryn Kemp

#addiction #addicts #brave #courage #difficult-life

The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties. ↗

— Eric Rohmer

#except #french #out #seek

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#books #compensated #i #large #large numbers

One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989. ↗

— Nadia Comaneci

#difficult times #escaped #i #life #most