#mile

I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant. ↗

— Carolyn Murphy

#bali #because #connected #constant #dreamed

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England. ↗

— Horace Porter

#did #england #ignorance #new #new england

when you shoot for the stars, you can't ever look back. ↗

— Brittany Perloff

#dreaming #dreams #goals #happy #inspirational

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#nails #similes #well-worn-phrases #christmas

Emmy has embarked on her journey to enrich the world with smiles. They are free, healthy, and often, very contagious. ↗

— Emmy Swain

#life #love-each-other #smile #life

More than half of my life is past; I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it to account and for effacing my errors by my virtues. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#error #life #past #virtue #life

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#simile #stubbornness #scripture

Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#uncertainty #sisters

Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#smile

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#self-image #smile