Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming…
The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn’t make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie. (Jace Wayland)
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.
Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead Walk beside me… just be my friend
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Your friend’s poetry is terrible,” he said. Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. “What?” “I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.
So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.
Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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