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A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. It is something to think of ↗

— Jane Austen

#life

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#doing-good #god #life #life

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#celebrate #life #more #praise #you

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#life #opposites #summer #winter #life

What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#melina-marchetta #life

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#life #life

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#poetic #profound #sabina #tereza #tomas

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#guns #military #military-budget #politics #poverty

CALVIN: This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery? If the guy exists why doesn't he ever show himself and prove it? And if he doesn't exist what's the meaning of all this? HOBBES: I dunno. Isn't this a religious holiday? CALVIN: Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#life #religion #life

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#wisdom #life