#de

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach. ↗

— Aristotle

#understanding #teaching

We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need. ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

#bulimia #eating-disorders #skeletons #thin #teaching

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#pride #self-improvement #christianity

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. ↗

— Rachel Carson

#ecology #reality #universe #wonder #wonder

I'd like to bite that lip. ↗

— E.L. James

#book #christian-grey #e-l-james #fifty-shades-of-grey #christianity

I've heard a lot about you, Rose. Don't worry. It was all good." "No, it wasn't. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#frostbite #richelle-mead #tasha-ozera #vampire-academy #christianity

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#wonder

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#wonder

When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#winnie-the-pooh #wonder

Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent . . . it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don’t hesitate. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#dimitri #mead #richelle #vampire-academy #wonder