#hart

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. ↗

— William Osler

#disease #go #patients #phenomena #sail

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry - architecture being the least banal derivative of the latter. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#age

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them. ↗

— Carl Schurz

#course #ideals #like #never #our

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die. ↗

— Karl Shapiro

#blow #chart #die #eyes #face

Chase leaned in close. "hey" What? Are you wearing perfume? No... why would I be wearing perfume?... You sure you're not wearing anything? It smells like jasmine. Must be the bushes ↗

— Gemma Halliday

#funny

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#hart-s-hope #leadership #change

You don’t see yourself clearly, but I do. You’re the man that I want, and I’m fighting for you, fighting for us. ↗

— Ella Fox

#family

Don't you ever talk about yourself like that to me again. You hurt me when you hurt yourself Spencer. Think about that the next time you go to say something so stupid. ↗

— Ella Fox

#family

At last, somebody in line steps forward. “I can commit,” he says. He’s a tall, lean young man with a rifle slung over his back. “What’s your name?” Chris asks. “Andrew,” he replies. “And I’m in.” Chris nods. A few other guys step forward and, after a few moments, the entire crowd of ex-POWs takes one step, signifying their decision. My chest swells with pride – pride for Chris’s leadership, pride for the people willing to give their lives to take down Omega. It’s a rush. ↗

— Summer Lane

#cassidy-hart #chris-young #romance #state-of-chaos #summer-lane

Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not important-but the unity of the world, the coherence of all events, the embracing of the big and the small from the same stream, from the same law of cause, of becoming and dying. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#life #siddhartha #uncertainty #unity #life