#ness

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#mystery #rosseau #unattractiveness #love

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it. ↗

— Criss Jami

#belief #controversial #controversy #debating #difference

Happiness depends upon two things - pleasing God, and then pleasing yourself. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#happiness #please #richelle #richelle-goodrich #success

The power of a smile is such that even drawing a happy face on a piece of paper makes your lips turn up. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#happy #richelle #richelle-goodrich #smile #richelle-goodrich

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#echoes #emptiness #hear #hearing #literature

Don’t trust anybody else—no matter how close you are to them.” (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#fiction #paranormal-romance-series #supernatural #trust #young-adult

He thought others were small; that was his greatness. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #greatness #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy

With me: one minus one = one; with you: it’s zero. Here lies the only difference. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#difference #literature #literature-quotes #minus #one

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary. ↗

— Wendy Wasserstein

#happiness #humor #identity #intimacy #life

There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#r-alan-woods #self-righteousness #sins #sociopathology #sociopaths