#ness

Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#alone

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#happiness #woman #woman

I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#self-awareness #self-image #games

If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#kindness #politics-observation #observation

A phenomenon that a number of people have noted while in deep depression is the sense of being accompanied by a second self — a wraithlike observer who, not sharing the dementia of his double, is able to watch with dispassionate curiosity as his companion struggles against the oncoming disaster, or decides to embrace it. There is a theatrical quality about all this, and during the next several days, as I went about stolidly preparing for extinction, I couldn't shake off a sense of melodrama — a melodrama in which I, the victim-to-be of self-murder, was both the solitary actor and lone member of the audience. ↗

— William Styron

#depression #suicide #observation

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#sorrow #observation

Laughter is poison to fear. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#catelyn-stark #fear #george-r-r-martin #happiness #laughter

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. ↗

— Plato

#kindness #fighting

Whoever is happy will make others happy. ↗

— Anne Frank

#young

Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. “No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?” “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#insanity #madness #idea