#ness

And then there will be the times when I see you laughing. Like the time you’ll be playing with the neighbor’s puppy, poking your hands through the chain-link fence separating our back yards, and you’ll be laughing so hard you’ll start hiccupping. The puppy will run inside the neighbor’s house, and your laughter will gradually subside, letting you catch your breath. Then the puppy will come back to the fence to lick your fingers again, and you’ll shriek and start laughing again. It will be the most wonderful sound I could ever imagine, a sound that makes me feel like a fountain, or a wellspring. ↗

— Ted Chiang

#family #happiness #love #short-story #family

Don't play with others, or at one day, you will be played by others. ↗

— Usama Ejaz

#benefit-others #classics #inspirational #kindness #life

Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. Fame! You'll be as famous as famous can be, with the whole wide world watching you win on TV. Except when they don't Because, sometimes they won't. I'm afraid that some times you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#games #loneliness #lonely #television

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad. ↗

— Jeanne DuPrau

#books-of-ember #city-of-ember #goodness #jeanne-duprau #lina

Learn her skills, honor her sword, and keep her secrets. ↗

— Ally Carter

#awesome

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#simile #stubbornness #scripture

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#optimism #resistance #struggle #optimism

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. ↗

— George Washington

#happiness #honor #honor

I am fond of reminding my yoga students of the saying “It takes one to know one” when they become lost I condemnation and judgment of others. The world that we perceive is a reflection of our own states of mind and reveals our own level of consciousness. The world is little more than a Rorschach blot in which we see our own desire systems projected. We see what we want to see. (116) ↗

— Prem Prakash

#consciousness #judgment #perception #self #world

It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#awkwardness #emotion #school #emotion