#pi

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#ambition #engage #fear #love #need

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#born #fact #faith #in fact #must

I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#dog #guinea #guinea pig #hairy #horses

I'm not talking about the blood ecstasy. I'm talking about my being able to fill that emotion void she has. You know her as well as I do, maybe better. She aches with it. She needs to be accepted for who she is so badly. And I was able to do that. Do you know good that felt? To be able to show someone that, yes, you are someone worth sacrificing for? That you like them for their faults and that you respect them for their ability to rise above them? ↗

— Kim Harrison

#acceptance-of-others #friendship #friendship-true-and-loyal #inspirational #love

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#been #feel #feeling #front #happiest

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men! ↗

— Mary Chesnut

#could #discreet #i #if i could #into

Safe?” Her voice was small, timid and delicate. But beautiful. The one word chimed like little bells. Her first word spoken to me. ↗

— Patricia Lynne

#paranormal #vampires #ya #young-adult #beauty

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#beautiful #consists #every #frame #limitation

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#comes #end #end of the world #episode #every

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#doubled #form #gratitude #happiness #highest