#pi

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#like #mystery #never #religion #should

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#by-product #doing #feel #fulfilled #makes

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#always #cannot #except #ideal #incessant

Legend remains victorious in spite of history. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#legend #remains #spite #victorious

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#argument #berries #better #cup #dawn

On my wedding day. I didn't want a natural, blushing-bride look - I had a full-on hairdo and red lips. I thought it would be disingenuous to do the whole virginal look, so even though I had the white dress, I had pink net underneath. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#disingenuous #dress #even #full-on #had

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#brutal #feels #idea #like #middle-class

Umpires are necessary evils. ↗

— Doug Harvey

#necessary #umpires

Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man. ↗

— Henry Beston

#earth #least #man #spirit #you

But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life. ↗

— Albert Camus

#murder #dating