#thou

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#carrying #drop #even #go #idea

I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#balloons #captions #descriptions #fashion #figures

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#except #nothing #our #own #power

I buy thousands of books a year. ↗

— Dave Pelzer

#buy #i #thousands #year

The thought in my mind was that I must be a good merchant. If I were a good merchant, the rest would probably take care of itself. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#good #i #itself #merchant #mind

They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable. ↗

— Barry Pepper

#could #crawl #dead #exhausted #lay

Without stones there is no arch. ↗

— Marco Polo

#stones #without

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#convulsion #ever #ever after #fits #leave

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem. ↗

— Jane Porter

#gem #nobility #setting #virtue #without

Dance must have a precision without fault. ↗