#ness

So how did you get this job, anyway?' I asked. 'My science teacher.' 'Why'd he pick you?' 'For my brains and good looks, obviously.' 'Yeah, right. My social studies teacher picked me, but I can't really figure out why." 'For your brains and good looks, obviously.' 'Um, thanks.' Had Aaron just complimented me? Wow. ↗

— Polly Shulman

#bragging #compliments #teenagers #science

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#knowledge #rationalism #science #self-delusion #science

Dried fish is a staple food in Iceland.This should be shredded with the fingers and eaten with butter. It varies in toughness. The tougher kind tastes like toe-nails, and the softer kind like the skin off the soles of one's feet. ↗

— Louis MacNeice

#toughness #food

Jenn: Do you love him? Ani: Yeah, I do. Jenn: Then you can forgive him. It's not worth it to let love slip through your hands. ↗

— Cheyenne McCray

#moving-target #forgiveness

History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#lightness #life

أن الحياة فيها المسرات و الأحزان ، ولم يكن الأمر يستحق الطاقة لينزعج المرء من الأحزان ، ليس لأنه لا مفر منها وحسب بل ولأنها تنقضي أيضًا ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#novel #sadness #life

if you love someone so much and they love you as the same dont let go of them fite for them showem how you true feel no lies no bs but if they are not worth it then leave and find your happiness ↗

— Mike Radcliff Jr

#inspirational #life #sadness #inspirational

it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy. ↗

— Mary Karr

#poet #writing-life #life

Love your life. That's a direct route to something people used to call "happiness". ↗

— Clementine Holzinger

#life #life

Boyishness—by which I mean animal life in its fullest measure, good nature and honest impulses, hatred of injustice and meanness, and thoughtlessness enough to sink a three-decker. ↗

— Thomas Hughes

#romanticism #life