#rest

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. ↗

— Joyce Brothers

#getting #healthy #inevitable #interested #learn

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest. ↗

— A. Whitney Brown

#am #forest #frustrated #i #i am

As he rose to his feet he noticed that he was neither dripping nor panting for breath as anyone would expect after being under water. His clothes were perfectly dry. He was standing by the edge of a small pool—not more than ten feet from side to side in a wood. The trees grew close together and were so leafy that he could get no glimpse of the sky. All the light was green light that came through the leaves: but there must have been a very strong sun overhead, for this green daylight was bright and warm. It was the quietest wood you could possibly imagine. There were no birds, no insects, no animals, and no wind. You could almost feel the trees growing. The pool he had just got out of was not the only pool. There were dozens of others—a pool every few yards as far as his eyes could reach. You could almost feel the trees drinking the water up with their roots. This wood was very much alive. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#forest #magic #imagination

Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting. ↗

— Jason Patric

#find #i #interesting #just #pacino

[Fireheart]mewed,"It's not my place to judge you." Greystripe looked up as Fireheart went on." Greystripe, whatever you decide to do, I will always be your friend. ↗

— Erin Hunter

#fireheart #firepaw #firestar #friend #friendship

They were black like a lizard's and very large and, like the eyes of a lizard, could sometimes look sleepy. ↗

— Scott O'Dell

#interesting #inspirational

In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with. ↗

— John Green

#inspirational #interesting #inspirational

'Do not ask what brings Dante to man but what brings man to Dante-to personally enter his sphere, though it is forever severe and unforgiving.' ↗

— Matthew Pearl

#interesting #inspirational

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people. ↗

— John Goodman

#insurance #medicaid #ought #people #plan

In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#enlightenment #expression #face #faces #life