#si

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off. ↗

— Aretha Franklin

#falling #like #losing #lot #love

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#being #being happy #decide #diminish #each

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#better #change #consideration #even #experienced

The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity. ↗

— Lucinda Franks

#eternity #itself #mantelpiece #meaning #mind

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night. ↗

— Michael Franti

#change the world #difficult #help #i #know

And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#lambs #really #silence #smart

It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it? ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#back #book #does #else #family

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#kind #life #like #music #my life

We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me. ↗

— Dawn Fraser

#between #born #deter #die #got

I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again. ↗

— Arthur Freed

#feeling #happy #i #just #rain