#sense

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death. ↗

— Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

#life #living #sense-of-self #death

Every romantic woman dreams of Willoughby. However, every wise woman’s heart knows Colonel Brandon would take care of her when she was sick, love her when she was well and know her worth every day that she breathes. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#jane-austen #love #marriage #relationships #sense-and-sensibility

The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#education

Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds. ↗

— Libba Bray

#nonsense #silly #humor

Lose your mind and come to your senses. ↗

— Frederick S. Perls

#mind #senses #inspirational

Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#moon #sense-of-wonder #stars #moon

A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of pain. However, if you're a person who knows it all, then you've got a lot of heavy-hearted experiences coming your way. ↗

— Ron Carpenter Jr.

#inspirational-life #learning-from-mistakes #quotes-that-make-sense #quotes-to-define-my-life #quotes-to-live-by

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions. ↗

— M.M. Kaye

#common-sense #m-m-kaye #wisdom #common-sense

I want to get the huge wart that looks like a nose removed from my back, but first I'm going to try to grow a mustache underneath it, to make it less noticeable. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#blemish #funny #grotesque #humor #mustache

That human life is but a first installment of the serial soul and that one's individual secret is not lost in the process of earthly dissolution, becomes something more than an optimistic conjecture, and even more than a matter of religious faith, when we remember that only commonsense rules immortality out. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#common-sense #faith