#wise

What binds a wife to her husband is neither magic, nor a priest, nor love! What makes this possible is only silver coins! A woman’s heart is like a candle, my friend. As long as the money wick keeps burning, her heart stays warm. But when the wick burns down, her love is extinguished! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#love

And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as simple as that. A duty of love. Do you understand what I'm saying to you? ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#witty #love

Hey Jude, don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better. ↗

— The Beatles

#love #music #the-beatles #wise-words #love

I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity. ↗

— Stephen King

#stephen-king #wise #writers #writing #inspirational

if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns? ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#the-little-prince #wise #inspirational

Only gravity can hold me down; only myself can hold me back.” ~ Amunhotep El Bey ↗

— Amunhotep El Bey

#motivational-quotes #philosophical #philosophy #wisdom-inspirational #wisdom-quote

When you’ve tried everything and failed, try everything else and succeed ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #philosophy #wisedom #inspirational

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom. ↗

— François de La Rochefoucauld

#passion #wisedom #men

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. ↗

— Richard Cecil

#attention #beautiful #best #convinced #dwell

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#polished #rock #smooth #wisdom #wise