#mit

Calamity is the test of integrity. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#integrity #test

That's what I was supposed to say... ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose-hathaway #blood

We cannot road trip to Paris. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#last-sacrifice #rose #sacrifice

You make me believe in happiness... if I had my way, if anything were up to me, I’d never be without you. You are my purpose. ↗

— Courtney Kirchoff

#happiness #love #purpose-in-life #life

I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#lessons #life #lit #movies #quotes

The first and last schoolmaster of life is living and committing oneself unreservedly and dangerously to living; to men who know this an Aristotle and a Plato have much to say; but those who have imposed cautions on themselves and petrified themselves in a system of ideas, them the masters themselves will lead into error ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#living #life

One finds limits by pushing them. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#limits #pushing #them

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide. ↗

— John Adams

#political-philosophy #commitment

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#second-amendment #thomas-jefferson #commitment

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_) ↗

— Victor Hugo

#commitment