#vic

On your birthday you should throw me a party. This is my advice for everybody, especially my clones. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#birthday #clone #funny #humor #funny

The shortest distance between two people is a smile. ↗

— Victor Borge

#kindness #music #victor-borge #humor

Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #eternity #fame #knighthood #knights

Sun is a hearthstone, a merry-go-round of extinguished hearthstones. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#hearthstone #literature #literature-quotes #merry-go-round #philosophy

How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #eyesight #invisible #literature #literature-quotes

Never trust a duck. ↗

— Will Herondale

#the-infernal-devices #will-herondale #william-herondale #will-herondale

Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?' 'Faffing about, most likely', said Will. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-prince #tessa-grey #the-infernal-devices #will-herondale #will-herondale

Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own ↗

— Rollo May

#existentialism #morality #existentialism

Most bullies are the product of a stressful and often abusive home life. Next time a bully threatens or attacks you, just yell, 'Don't abuse me like your parents abuse you!' Then call children's services and tell them you saw this bully crying in the bathroom and you're worried about him. Bam! He just got moved to a foster home. ↗

— Eugene Mirman

#advice #bullies #humor #school #humor

Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Then too there were lots of weddings in Wharton and Austen. There were all kinds of irresistible gloomy men. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#literary-criticism #literary-theory #narrative #nineteenth-century #novels