#rings

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure! ↗

— Petrarch

#earth #fortune #how

Change brings opportunity. ↗

— Nido Qubein

#brings #opportunity

Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow. ↗

— Leon Redbone

#close #day #dreaming #dreams #empty

So I - the thought that I would physically be different was - it's not a thrill, I have to tell you. It's kind of - it brings you up short. But I was able to look at it right away. ↗

— Lynn Redgrave

#away #be different #brings #different #i

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude. ↗

— Pat Riley

#effort #great #great attitude #naturally #springs

All cruelty springs from weakness. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#springs #weakness

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money. ↗

— Neil Simon

#brings #certain #certain point #happiness #just

What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher. ↗

— Ken Wilber

#brings #ego #enlightened #first #need

Uncomplicated, no strings sex makes you happy, love makes you miserable. ↗

— Spencer Waking the dead

#bbc-drama-series-waking-the-dead #love #love

There’s no two ways about it, Tolkien fans are a funny bunch. I should know, for I was one of them. Been there, done that, read the book, gone mad. I first took on The Lord of the Rings at the age of eleven or twelve; to be precise, I began it at the age of eleven and finished at the age of twelve. It was, and remains, not a book that you happen to read, like any other, but a book that happens to you: a chunk bitten out of your life. (http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2001...) ↗

— Anthony Lane

#lord-of-the-rings #age