#sm

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#story

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#action

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us? ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#character #cornelia-funke #existentialism #words #writers

It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#dreams #god #gods #dreams

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. ↗

— Abraham Harold Maslow

#instrumentalism #problem-solving #problems

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for. ↗

— Albert Camus

#pacifism #principles #war #die

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#nothing

Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day. ↗

— Deng Ming-Dao

#suffering #taoism #harmony

Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up. ↗

— Deng Ming-Dao

#fate #perseverance #taoism #wrestling #harmony

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#nothing