#su

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot. ↗

— John Lennon

#behind #every #great #idiot #usual

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. ↗

— Steve Martin

#day #know #like #night #sunshine

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power. ↗

— George Meredith

#power #treasure #witty #woman

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#five #insane #marks #mind #sign

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap! ↗

— Dolly Parton

#costs #how #look #much #surprised

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived—this is to have succeeded. ↗

— Bessie Anderson Stanley

#misattributed-to-emerson #success #widely-misattributed #beauty

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#also #beauty #birth #gives #opposite

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart ↗

— Helen Keller

#emotions #feelings #beauty

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#function #man #reason #show #some

I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you. ↗

— John Green

#inevitable #love #oblivion #pleasure #simple