#ratio

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#humor #laughter #humor

If we wished to gain contentment, we might try such rules as these: 1. Allow thyself to complain of nothing, not even of the weather. 2. Never picture thyself to thyself under any circumstances in which thou art not. 3. Never compare thine own lot with that of another. 4. Never allow thyself to dwell on the wish that this or that had been, or were, otherwise than it was, or is. God Almighty loves thee better and more wisely than thou dost thyself. 5. Never dwell on the morrow. Remember that it is God's, not thine. The heaviest part of sorrow often is to look forward to it. "The Lord will provide. ↗

— Edward Bouverie Pusey

#art

And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#inspirational #humor

People treat you as badly as you let them treat you. Key word there: let. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#inspirational

Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#creativity #inspiration #sociology #writing #art

What we know is everything, it is our limit, of what we can be. ↗

— Julian Assange

#inspirational #inspirational

It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished. ↗