#little

He heard the thrill in her voice, he saw her earnest face, he saw her clear true eyes, he saw the quickened bosom that would have joyfully thrown itself before him to receive a mortal wound directed at his breast, with the dying cry, 'I love him!' and the remotest suspicion of the truth never dawned upon his mind. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#love

And I thought to myself how those fast little articles forget everything, everything, while we, old lovers, treasure every inch of their nymphancy ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#lolita #love #lovers #nymph #love

If we could all love each and every person that crosses our path a little bit more, we could attain inner peace with the knowledge that many people on this planet would be hurting a whole lot less. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#happiness #hurting #inner-peace #inspirational-quotes #joy

They can rip you bring you down, down to their size, but they will never get to the heart you hold inside. ↗

— Little Mix

#jade-thirlwall #jesy-nelson #leigh-ann-pinnock #little-mix #lyrics

wop-bop-a-lu-bop... a-lop-bam-boom! ↗

— R.W. Penniman

#existentialism #inspirational #little-richard #inspirational

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. ↗

— Richard Cecil

#attention #beautiful #best #convinced #dwell

…and Aunt Jo retired, satisfied with the success of her last trap to catch a sunbeam. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #men

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#handsome #inspired #large #little #long

Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it. ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

#frances-hodgson-burnett #inspirational #princess #inspirational

Ever see a little kid walking around talking to himself? I'm the same way. ↗

— Chubby Checker

#ever #himself #i #kid #little