#ss

It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#politeness #rudeness #life

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. ↗

— Beverly Sills

#life #success #life

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself. ↗

— Aesop

#life

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#love #life

Did you know that the average American spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green? Six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on. Think of all the other stuff you could do with that time.” I was totally confused. “In the car?” “In your life,” he said. ↗

— Megan McCafferty

#megan-mccafferty #life

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#life

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#fiction-writing #human-nature #journey #life-lessons #truth

I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life-lessons #soul #life

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. ↗

— Tana French

#life #life

Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#life #life