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True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#wit #writing #nature

I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#govern #governments #i #i think #more

I try to teach my kids to be open. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#kids #open #teach #try

Sometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops of the western mountains and to feel the breeze drawn into the valley by the rising day-heated air. Usually they stood silently for a while and breathed in peacefulness. Since both were shy they never talked about themselves. Neither knew about the other at all. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#men #mountains #nature #personality #women

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#interesting #more #much #said #success

Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors. ↗

— Beth Kephart

#mysteries #nature

A few blossoms float into the room. They drop like frayed yellow ribbons on the gray carpet. ↗

— Eileen Granfors

#flowers #nature #nature

There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go? ↗

— Joe L. Wheeler

#god #nature #summer #nature

The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#mankind #nature

The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#impossible #nature