#insightful

A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#humor #insightful #humor

...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this: "He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#insightful #humor

There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#insightful #poignant #humor

BAIT GOAT There is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set one out like a bait goat and wait and seven others will approach. But watch out: roving packs can pull your word away. You find your stake yanked and some rough bunch to thank. ↗

— Kay Ryan

#thought-provoking #thought-provoking

...yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them. ↗

— Melville

#love

Those who sees your mistake as a big thing, give thanks to them; cuz' they'll make you a better person. But for those who let you forget such mistakes, be thankful; cuz' they are your true friends. ↗

— Kent Ian N.Cny

#friends #frienship #insight #insightful #inspirational

I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#insightful #inspirational #insult #humor

The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless. ↗

— Bilal Hussain

#inspirational #philosophy #science #technology #thought-provoking

It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it—gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead. ↗

— Ann Packer

#fathers-and-daughters #insightful #age

She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle. ↗

— Banana Yoshimoto

#life