Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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| — | Tao Te Ching (via littlemiss) |
Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. It’s so simple, you’ve got to catch it through details. Like the early morning sunlight hitting the grey tin of the rainspout in front of her house… the ring of the telephone that sounds like Beethoven’s Pastorale… or a letter scribbled on her office stationary that you carry around in your pocket, because it smells like all the lilacs in Ohio.
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| — | The Lost Weekend, 1945 (via julie911) |
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
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| — | Thomas Merton (via littlemiss) |
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.
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| — | Marcel Pagnol (via julie911) |
It’s mentally exhausting, feeling bad about something you can do nothing about.
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| — | The Truth About Cats & Dogs (via julie911) |
Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.
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| — | Elizabeth Taylor (via appleonastick) |
Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.
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| — | Unknown (via appleonastick) |
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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| — | Eric Hoffer (via appleonastick) |
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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| — | Benjamin Disraeli (via appleonastick) |
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
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| — | Brigitte Bardot (via appleonastick) |
