#ring

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#coming #cut #flowers #keep #spring

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#real #suffering #terrorists #torture

And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#secrets #sharing-secrets #words

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#glittering-eyes #hidden #magic #secrets #unlikely-places

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#daring #ideas #games

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#laughter #mainspring

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. ↗

— Henry Adams

#facts #ignoring #politics #practical

You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they call real life, made of eighth-inch gauge. Newness strutting around as if it were significant. Irony, neatness and rhyme pretending to be poetry. I want to go back to that time after Michiko's death when I cried every day among the trees. To the real. To the magnitude of pain, of being that much alive. ↗

— Jack Gilbert

#death

'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip. ↗

— Scott Adams

#downsizing #during #job #job security #major

I'm surrendering myself to the realities of the Internet. ↗

— Scott Adams

#internet #myself #realities #surrendering