#sen

My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#nerd #nerdiness #nerds #sense-of-humor #wisdom

Sometimes, humor makes more sense than reasoning. ↗

— Toba Beta

#make-sense #reasoning #humor

Smee! Raise the Ladies! ↗

— Dave Barry

#nonsense #humor

I warned you; I warned you I was the Senses Taker," sneered the Senses Taker. "I help people find what they're not looking for, hear what they're not listening for, run after what they're not chasing, and smell what isn't even there. And, furthermore," he cackled, hopping around gleefully on his stubby legs, "I'll steal your sense of purpose, take your sense of duty, destroy your sense of proportion — and, but for one thing, you'd be helpless yet." "What's that?" asked Milo fearfully. "As long as you have the sound of laughter," he groaned unhappily, "I cannot take your sense of humor — and, with it, you've nothing to fear from me. ↗

— Norton Juster

#sense-of-humor #sense-of-purpose #senses #humor

It’s as easy as we choose to make it,” he murmured, pressing his forehead to mine. “At least, this decision is. Nothing’s truly easy, Georgina. Love and life . . . they’re wonderful, but they’re hard. We may mess up again. We have to be strong and decide if we can still go forward, even when things aren’t perfect. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#life

A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men. ↗

— Willy Wonka

#nonsense #humor

I love full on, like 65 mph in a handicapped parking spot.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#car #disabled #funny #handicapped #humor

It is something to have gazed on the constellated white, felt it running from the eyes and the pores: the salt of love. It is something to have whispered wild thank-yous in the only ways we know how. ↗

— Bryana Johnson

#free-verse #hamlet #poetry-life #shakespeare #the-quintessence-of-dust

his stubble was cut smooth. he smelled of aftershave, dry deodorant and sex-tarnished bedsheets. those eyes--grey, strong, inlaid beneath a firm brow that displayed such hate and SUCH love--they seduced her every time... but not tonight. ↗

— Jake Vander Ark

#eyes #sensuality #love

[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for our own sake, because through that, and through contemplation in equal measure, our soul is purified and brought closer to the divine. ... Thought and deed conjoined are crucial. ... The attempt must be made; the outcome is irrelevant. Right action is a pale material reflection of the divine, but reflection it is, nonetheless. Define your goal and exert reason to accomplish it by virtuous action; successs or failure is secondary. ↗

— Iain Pears

#deeds #divinity #failure #future #goals