#ado

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#contradiction #doctrines #paradox #practice #rules

One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#paradox

None of you appreciate me. Why is it so hard to believe that I could make a real contribution in these dark rimes? ↗

— Richelle Mead

#shadow-kiss #vampire-academy #adrian-ivashkov

He drank in her misery like fine wine, savoring every drop, letting it soothe his mind, his tension flowing out the fingertips that held the paddle. ↗

— Verity Ant

#masters-hunt #sadomasochism #bdsm

What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#good #shadow #good-and-evil

Hope strengthens. Fear kills. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#shadowfever #karen-marie-moning

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#dream #greater #hope #life #likely

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away. ↗

— Aeschylus

#alas #away #compare #dash #fortunate

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ↗

— Aesop

#grasping #lose #shadow #substance #you

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. ↗

— Dave Barry

#adolescent #embarrassing #more #nothing #parent