#though

It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them. ↗

#beauty #dejan-stojanovic #gaze #literature #literature-quotes

Happiness is the secret to all beauty; there is no beauty that is attractive without happiness. ↗

There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial ↗

— Donna Tartt

#beauty

It’s impossible for me to applaud your successes when my hands are too busy patting myself on the back. But if I clap for you, and you pat my back, we can both feel like winners.  ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #funny #humor #random #random-thought

...just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives. ↗

— Steve Martin

#inspirational #thoughtful #change

One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live... surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place. "Where you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow. ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

#thoughts-on-life #courage

Some men think because they're afraid to do. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#thought-provoking #courage

Death swallows death. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#death #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #poetry

They are both spectacular, Life and death. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #life #literature #literature-quotes #poems

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night. ↗