#rat

Death can come slow. Death can come quick. If you've got one last breath, you better make the most of it. ↗

— A.H. Scott

#happiness-life #happiness-positive-attitude #humor #inspiration #life-living

She gets naked for attention and gets dressed for respect ↗

— Dorynda Jeanty

#attitude

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled. ↗

— Israel Zangwill

#find #pagan #scratch #spoiled #you

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. ↗

— Henry Miller

#develop #forget #interest #interesting #interesting people

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ↗

— Henry James

#english #literature #summer #beauty

I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult. ↗

— Harlan Ellison

#pain #philosophy #beauty

Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? ↗

— Richard Rodgers

#beauty #love #beauty

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#inspirational #beauty

Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#beauty #love #well-said #beauty

I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#humanity #inspirational #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #inspiring