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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.


Aristotle


#day #does #happy #make #man

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.


Francis Bacon


#commonly #fairer #foulest #life #much

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.


Virginia Woolf


#bored #happiness #himself #independent #life

I consider seeing my 30th birthday an accomplishment. You know, not many midgets live to be this tall.



Jarod Kintz


#birthday #birthdays #funny #height #humor

Apalah gunanya impian bila tidak diwujudkan?


Fredrik Nael


#fantasy-fiction #imagination #indonesian #inspiring #short-story

There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, quite frankly, are hard to find. But it's the serious ones I'm interested in, and it takes time to find a guy like that whom I'm equally interested in. I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?


Nicholas Sparks


#guys #interests #long-term #marriage #relationship

A shell in the pit," said I, "if the worst comes to worst will kill them all." The intense excitement of the events had no doubt left my perceptive powers in a state of erethism. I remember that dinner table with extraordinary vividness even now. My dear wife's sweet anxious face peering at me from under the pink lampshade, the white cloth with it silver and glass table furniture—for in those days even philosophical writers had luxuries—the crimson-purple wine in my glass, are photographically distinct. At the end of it I sat, tempering nuts with a cigarette, regretting Ogilvy's rashness, and denouncing the shortsighted timidity of the Martians. So some respectable dodo in the Mauritius might have lorded it in his nest, and discussed the arrival of that shipful of pitiless sailors in want of animal food. "We will peck them to death tomorrow, my dear.


H.G. Wells


#dodos #extinction #foreshadowing #overconfidence #shortsightedness

Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right.


Eoin Colfer


#eoin-colfer #friendship #holly-short #inspirational #friendship

She knew she could never love any man the way she loved a blank sheet of paper that only she could fill.


Coco J. Ginger


#jamie-weise #love #paper #short-story #writer-quotes

Life is NOT short! It's just by the time we catch up to appreciating it...we've already left life at least halfway behind us.


Sanjo Jendayi


#behind #deserie-johnson #life #sanjo-jendayi #short