#nature

This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on. ↗

— John Irving

#epiphany #sex #nature

I hope you haven't given up on the S.Q.'s of the world, Reynie. As you see, there are a great many sheep in wolves' clothing. If not for S.Q.'s good nature, we'd never have escaped. ↗

— Trenton Lee Stewart

#human-nature #trust #nature

Were she better, or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/But in ourselves. ↗

— John Green

#illness #sickness #starcrossed #stars #nature

That's what being a demigod was all about, not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#mark-of-athena #percy-jackson #nature

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#face #gift #handsomeness #looks #reading

The source of all light is in the eye. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#nature #observation #relativity #nature

And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#moral #morality #nature #supreme-being #nature

There is no need to always require a smile! Happiness is more of a look in the eyes, than a smile on the face! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#quotes-on-happiness #smile-happiness-expression #the-expression-of-happiness #the-nature-of-happiness #nature

Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense. ↗

— Criss Jami

#human #human-nature #judging #judgmental #logic

Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#nature