#ten

Well-written words are music. ↗

— William Shatner

#well-written #words

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#existence #hitherto #immoral #knowledge #morality

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#conversation #i #myself #often #quote

The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears. ↗

— Charles Simeon

#broken #could #ever #far #heart

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. ↗

— Sivananda

#alone #best #best way #contentment #craving

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. ↗

— B. F. Skinner

#been #forgotten #learned #survives

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#burn #damaging #go #head #injustice

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#could #down #fists #help #her

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. ↗

— Adam Smith

#cheerfulness #christian #course #david #dyed

We are all born naked into this world, but each of us is fully clothed in potential. ↗

— Emmitt Smith

#clothed #each #fully #into #naked