#ness

In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#fire #imagination #middle-ages #obviousness #writing

I had no tears to shed nor a prayer for the deceased... There is no hope for the hopeless. ↗

— Nadège Richards

#hopelessness #love #prayer #tears #death

Excuses are a time thief. Have a goal, accept responsibility, and take action! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#dreams #excuses #goal #goals #happiness

I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #past #present #tears

It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths. ↗

— Ray Lee Hunt

#know #more #strengths #than #weaknesses

I shot up,now as angry and frusterated as him.I had a feeling if i stayed, we'd both snap. In and undertone, I murmured,"this isnt over.i won't give up on you." " I've given up on you,"he said back,voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#love #sadness #truth #anger

if you fight with all your might,  there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner ↗

— Sun Tzu

#strategy #war #art

We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #mistakes #unperfect #forgiveness

...she had wondered which was worse: the sudden good-bye you know is a good-bye or the long good-bye you have to guess. ↗

— Rachel Simon

#sadness-love #beauty

Beauty he loved for its own sake; ugliness, which more often than not was a form of inverted beauty, fascinated him. Life offered far too little of either, and far too much appalling mediocrity, which he thought hideous. ↗

— Lloyd Biggle Jr.

#life #mediocrity #ugliness #ugly #beauty