#pin

Why not share with the world the way it is and tell them my feelings about my cat, and how I played with my kids, and how addicted to Christmas time I am, and the smell of pine needles and hearing my kids laugh. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#addicted #am #cat #christmas #christmas time

Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain? ↗

— Bernhard Schlink

#memory #pain #beauty

Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to confirm this transubstantiation: wherefore it is most likely that this opinion came up by them of latter days. ↗

— William Tyndale

#any #came #confirm #council #days

Adrian smiled and clasped my hands, taking a few steps toward me. "And as for who you are, you’re the same beautiful, brave, and ridiculously smart caffeinated fighter you’ve been since the day I met you.” Finally, he put “beautiful” at the top of his list of adjectives. Not that I should have cared. “Sweet talker,” I scoffed. “You didn’t know anything about me the first time we met.” “I knew you were beautiful,” he said. “I just hoped for the rest. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#attraction #cute #happiness #love #sydney-sage

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#consult #monarch #opinion #public #public opinion

I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation. ↗

— Usain Bolt

#i #i can #know #me #opinion

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#could #down #get #him #hit

There are people, radio talk show hosts, those kind of people, it's their job to only have one opinion, they can't tell you about their feelings. They have to go with what pays their bills. ↗

— Danny Bonaduce

#bills #feelings #go #hosts #job

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion. ↗

— Edward Bond

#dramatist #his #i #insulting #opinion

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#free #free market #happiness #humanity #influence