#ness

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting. ↗

— Robert Ryan

#greens #i #i feel #light #lot

All cruelty springs from weakness. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#springs #weakness

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition. ↗

— Arthur Rubinstein

#ask #condition #felt #happiness #most

In order to set forth the goodness of God towards myself, I have thought it prudent to record some of the leading incidents of my life, as a means of setting forth to my children that He is a rewarder of them who diligently seek Him. ↗

— William Rowley

#diligently #forth #god #goodness #him

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness. ↗

— Gabrielle Roy

#canada #canadian #distinct #fully #great

This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - which there isn't in other horror characters. ↗

— Richard Roxburgh

#always #area #attractive #characters #darkness

Don't you see? The catastrophe is me. My very existence is an affront to everything that is natural and good. ↗

— K.J. Wignall

#blood #helplessness #vampires #anger

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. ↗

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

#achievement #after #afterglow #best #come

I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#bitterness #anger

Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy. ↗

— Deborah Day

#personal-growth #self-esteem #self-love #self-worth #love