#mph

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph. ↗

— Michael Scott

#nicholas-flamel #niten #sophie #survival #triumph

To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#life #trials #triumphs #courage

Harry, guess what?" said Tonks from her perch on top of the washing machine, and she wiggled her left hand at him; a ring glittered there. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#nymphadora-tonks #remus-lupin #tonks #death

As Ginny and Hermione moved closer to the rest of the family, Harry had a clear view of the bodies lying next to Fred: Remus and Tonks, pale and still and peaceful-looking, apparently asleep beneath the dark, enchanted ceiling. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#nymphadora-tonks #remus-lupin #death

We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look. ↗

— Otis Williams

#been #career #girl #i #large

Rising in Triumph, just like the phoenix ↗

— Loretta Livingstone

#triumph #dreams

You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures. ↗

— Josephine Humphreys

#dating #hate #josephine-humphreys #love #relationship

The primary purposes of the political pamphlets of the early 1700s were neither to enlighten nor educate the masses, but to incite partisan conversation and spread commensurate ideas . . . Facts were not permitted to fetter the views they espoused, and the restraints of objective journalistic credibility were discarded by pamphleteers bent on promoting subjective slant to an insatiable general public for whom political dissonance was an integral part of social interaction. ↗

— Gavin John Adams

#pamphleteers #pamphlets #politics #education

For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#exultant #kierkegaard #love #triumphant #equality

Modern man is full of platitudes about living life to its fullest, with catchy keychain phrases and little plaques for kitchen walls. But if you've never retreated to the solitude of a dark room and listened to Beethoven's Ninth from start to finish, you know nothing. For music is a transcendental exploration of human emotion and experience, the very fabric of life in its purest form. And the Ninth our greatest musical achievement. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#classical-music #joy #life #music #symphony