#val

I stepped forward. Call me old-fashioned, but I wanted to keep his focus on me and not Annabeth. I think it’s polite for a guy to protect his girlfriend from instant incineration. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humor #humor

I balled my hands into tight fists to keep them from wrapping around Mr. I-Know-Everything's superior neck. ↗

— Maria V. Snyder

#valek #yelena #humor

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. ↗

— Antonio Gaudi

#certain #color #energetic #great #making

For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#love #regret #value #love

I fell in love with her the moment she was late, though neither one of us knew it at the time because she hadn’t arrived yet. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#future #knowledge #late #love #moment

We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar. ↗

— James E. Faust

#personal-values #integrity

On the average, only those prisoners could keep alive who, after years of trekking from camp to camp, had lost all scruples in their fight for existence; they were prepared to use every means, honest and otherwise, even brutal force, theft, and betrayal of their friends, in order to save themselves. We who have come back, by the aid of many lucky chances or miracles - whatever one may choose to call them - we know: the best of us did not return. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#honor #morality #sacrifice #survival #war

Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails. ↗

— Dave Pelzer

#survival #adversity

Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#gluttony #good-deeds #hope #mercy #nobility-of-spirit

You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#infatuation #love