#pa

He found that the business of optimism was no mean task. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#optimism #work #beauty

A good friend will help you to discover the potentials you haven't uncovered. A bad friend will help you to cover up the potentials you have already recovered. Make your choice! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#choice #companion #comrade #cover #cover-up

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#broken #build #children #easier #repair

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#paradise #men

Love has a shape, but no color. You’re probably wondering, “If it’s transparent, how do you know what shape it is?” Good question. Well, for one thing, I put it together, and for another, I’m currently wearing it like body armor (though to the casual observer, I appear naked).
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— Jarod Kintz

#body #color #love #naked #nonsense

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#belief #capable #every #evil #men

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#history #interesting #itself #men #more

Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#men

Compassion is not complete if it does not include oneself. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #eastern-philosophy #mindfulness #art

You do know how to play pinochle?" Mr. D eyed me suspiciously. "I'm afraid not," I said. "I'm afraid not, sir," he said. "Well," he told me, "it is, along with gladiator fighting and Pac-Man, one of the greatest games ever invented by humans. I would expect all civilized young men to know the rules. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#dionysus #gladiator #pac-man #percy-jackson #pinochle