#not

You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#anything #battle #cheerful #confer #effort

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#ends #higher #knowledge #nothing #our

You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#disguised #form #hate #himself #love

I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It's like two completely separate planets. ↗

— Lee Child

#civilian #completely #cope #dislocated #felt

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked. ↗

— Lee Child

#another #answer #become #book #desperation

There is nothing wrong with just telling the story. ↗

— Lee Child

#nothing #story #telling #wrong

Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did. ↗

— Alex Chilton

#addicted #another #anything #around #before

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#defense #direction #everything #goes #missile

When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#dancing #did #even #ever #experience

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#cheated #does #feeling #go #life