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Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#frankenstein #happiness #tranquility #science

Intent not followed by action is an insult to your design. Decide what you want, create a plan, and get your ass out there! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#design #happiness #intent #life #motivation

A judgment with an evil design comes about when we compare a person to our pre-conceived beliefs about what is right or wrong and then condemn that person. ↗

— John Kuypers

#faith #happiness #marriage-advice #non-judgment #relationships

Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are…and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#discovering-who-you-are #feeling-alone #finding-yourself #happiness #happiness-comes-from-within

This just didn’t happen to girls like me. This just didn’t happen to anyone. ↗

— Jenna-Lynne Duncan

#kidnapped #kidnapping #teen #young-adult #teen

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ↗

— Marthe Troly-Curtin

#misattributed-john-lennon #procrastination #time #time

When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness! ↗

— Casi McLean

#inspiration #inspirational-quotes #dreams

...our own barbaric civilization, in awe of the act of creation, does not respect creation at all. ↗

— Péter Nádas

#respect

Laine slowly rolled out of bed. The queen size was one of the few new things in the house. But now, even the new bed felt tainted. It was an inner-spring monument to lies, a petri dish of mendacity she had shared with her faithless husband, and shared now with creeping dreams that flew from the light but left harsh scratches and diseased black feathers. Laine promised herself that, as soon as, she could, she would rid herself of this house, this bed, her clothes, her jewelry - everything but the flesh she lived in. She would scrub herself clean and flee to start a new life whose first and only commandment would be: Never let thyself be lied to again. ↗

— Stephen M. Irwin

#betrayal #emotions #escaping #longing #loss

Nos-tal-gic,’ Akira said, as though it were a word he had been struggling to find. Then he said a word in Japanese, perhaps the Japanese for ‘nostalgic.’ ‘Nos-tal-gic. It is good to be nos-tal-gic. Very important.’ ‘Really, old fellow?’ ‘Important. Very important. Nostalgic. When we nostalgic, we remember. A world better than this world we discover when we grow. We remember and wish good world come back again. So very important. Just now, I had dream. I was boy. Mother, Father, close to me. in our house.’ He fell silent and continued to gaze across the rubble. ‘Akira,’ I said, sensing that the longer this talk went on, the greater was some danger I did not wish fully to articulate. ‘We should move on. We have much to do. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#happiness #illusions #innocence #loss #lost-innocence