#sit

Hardships make or break people. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#courage #life #perseverance #courage

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#awe #beauty #life #optimism #positivity

Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story. ↗

— Hugo Gernsback

#exposition #fiction #first #must #place

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#door #each #i #i wonder #just

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#beauty #concept #cooperation #entranced #form

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me. ↗

— Steve Swallow

#because #devise #found #i #impacted

I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#arm #counted #each #fallen #full

I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year. ↗

— George Takei

#four #i #least #once #regularly

Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. ↗

— Martha Washington

#am #cheerful #circumstance #determined #disposition