#ok

Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world. ↗

— Louise Brown

#looking #own #remember #special #unique

For me, that was love. Tangible. Love was what was in front of me, not a distant fantasy. ↗

— Laura Bickle

#laine-s-fave #love #love

I'm not like a car you can fix up. I'm never gonna run right" Bella ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#brokenness #lost-love #love

Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#love

A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#curiosity #knowledge #seduction #vice #love

You will never see things as they are; you will only see things as you are. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#enemy #love #people #relationships #love

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. ↗

— George Burns

#future #going #i #life #look

Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph, just as Irish heroes had once tied to their waists their enemies' heads. Where they went they brought their love of learning and their skills in bookmaking. In the bays and valleys of their exile, they reestablished literacy and breathed new life into the exhausted literary culture of Europe. And that is how the Irish saved civilization. ↗

— Thomas Cahill

#irish #literacy #life

I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course. ↗

— Danielle Trussoni

#angels #love

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life. ↗

— George Burns

#future #life #look #rest #spend