#nic

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#pain #relief #tonic

One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my time. Brooks Robinson is one of those athletes; they just don't make them any nicer. ↗

— Josh Charles

#any #athletes #before #being #brooks

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#fear #friendship #inspirational #trauma #trust

No. Absolutely not.” “Simon,” she said. “It’s a perfectly fine plan.” “The plan where you follow Jace and Sebastian off to some unknown dimensional pocket and we use these rings to communicate so those of us over here in the regular dimension of Earth can track you down? That plan?” “Yes.” “No,” he said. “No, it isn’t.” Clary sat back. “You don’t just get to say no.” “This plan involves me! I get to say no! No.” “Simon—” Simon patted the seat beside him as if someone were sitting there. “Let me introduce you to my good friend No. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#sarcasim #communication

It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#relationships #communication

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#communication

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#cynicism #destroy #disillusion #effectively #just

When I was in the second grade, I used to think love was the feeling a man gets while riding a motorcycle and having a woman embrace him tightly from behind. Maybe I’m cynical now, but I’m starting to think love is a unicycle with a flat tire. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #love #age

It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover. ↗

— Joe Cocker

#cover #get #i #nice #response

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#communicate #difficult #easy #i #i can