#ness

Happiness is like time and space--we make and measure it ourselves; it is a fancy--as big, as little, as you please; just a thing of contrasts and comparisons, like health or strength or beauty or any other good--that wouldn't even be noticed but for sad personal experience of its opposite!--or its greater! ↗

— George du Maurier

#happy #beauty

He forgives without any strings attached. ↗

— Jestoni Revealed

#forgiveness #jesus #forgiveness

This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#forgiveness #joke #tales #forgiveness

Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#happiness #life #light #loss #tragedy

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#before #comes #evil #expecting #foolish

Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#loss #sadness #friendship

How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble? ↗

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#repentance #forgiveness

If there wasn't any business and it was just strictly basketball, then there would be no issue, it would probably be done by now. But the team has to protect. ↗

— Jason Kidd

#basketball #business #done #issue #just

Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#art #based #character #consciousness #deep

Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the whole time that you're talking. Convinced that you're living whole time that I'm dying. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#death #dying #sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin