#y

The one charm of the past is that it is the past. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#past

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#every #every time #fail #failing #glory

Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#philosophy #evolution

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. ↗

— Marcel Pagnol

#be happy #better #find #future #happy

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#bored #does #else #failures #i

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence. ↗

— George Eliot

#failure

It’s okay. Everything’s going to be okay. You can let go of the sword." "I can’t. I can’t leave him alone. I have to protect him." "You have. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#frostbite #mead #richelle #vampire #alone

Memory is the happiness of being alone. ↗

— Lois Lowry

#memory #alone

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#read

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. ↗

— Mark Twain

#attributed-no-source #literacy #read