#sm

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#challenge #genius #heroism #intelligence #trial

The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too ↗

— Herbert Samuels

#smile #life

Why be alone when we can be together baby You can make my life worthwhile And I can make you start to smile ↗

— Mr. Big

#love #relationships #romance #smile #song

I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile. ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#smile #life

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing. ↗

— Alan Moore

#life

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile. ↗

— Judith Guest

#find #hard #keep #lips #people

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#escapism #life #reading #life

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#poetry #villain #life

Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#dunford #julia-quinn #love #minx #regency

The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#cosmos #life #mystery #universe #life