#mo

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. ↗

— Jean Paul

#air #around #beneath #break #gather

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. ↗

— Jean Paul

#approach #becomes #before #bright #clear

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe. ↗

— Jean Paul

#breathe #children #conscience #evil #formed

I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that? ↗

— Billy Bob Thornton

#around #ceiling #floor #going #heard

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality. ↗

— Jean Paul

#eternal #eternal youth #gives #immortality #sleep

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life. ↗

— Jean Paul

#fancy #gray #gray hairs #hairs #life

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more. ↗

— Jean Paul

#i #made #man #more #much

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it. ↗