#ness

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#avoided #composed #misfortunes

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness. ↗

— Robert Blair

#dread #firmness #grave #her #men

If I get married, it's something you really have to work at. It's hard enough to work at having a relationship with best friends and girls that are in the business. ↗

— Selma Blair

#business #enough #friends #get #get married

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business. ↗

— Selma Blair

#away #business #ever #everything #i

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. ↗

— Princess Diana

#carry #day #expectation #kindness #knowledge

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#only #passion

I feared the defining point of this Hell was its unrelenting uniformity, its lack of variation from type. If there was a heaven at the end of this, it must be filled with great variety, perhaps a multiplicity of intelligent species spread across universes. Yes, heaven would be as full of difference as Hell was of sameness. ↗

— Steven L. Peck

#heaven #hell #sameness #intelligence

When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#before #doubts #forced #go #into

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#breakfast #forgiven #her #his #man

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. ↗

— William Blake

#business #compare #create #enslaved #i