#vic

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#nostalgia #life

Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#life

Let's die of it before we're too old. ↗

— John le Carré

#life_universe_everything #life

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#chivalry #dejan-stojanovic #life #literature #literature-quotes

What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#life-lessons #life

Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#revenge #victories #life

The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them. ↗

— Jamaica Kincaid

#life #the-past #life

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#cassandra-clare #clockwork-princess #death #dying #i-can-t-even

The great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. ↗

— George Eliot

#conviction #life

Only God can take our failures and turn them into victories. ↗

— Evinda Lepins

#god #life-quotes #victories #life