#tar

Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could. ↗

— John Green

#the-fault-in-our-stars #stars

I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend... ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#stars #stars

It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. ↗

— John Green

#infinities #infinity #tfios #stars

I've gotten really hot since you went blind. ↗

— John Green

#blindness #exageration #stars

I don't know if you've noticed, but our two-party system is a bowl of shit looking at itself in the mirror. ↗

— Lewis Black

#raving #stand-up-comedy #stark #comedy

War is politics for everyone but the warrior. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#iraq-war #political-commentary #politics #war #war-on-terror

Sometimes, a war saves people. ↗

— José Ramos-Horta

#humanitarianism #pacifism #war #iraq

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#elementary #sherlock-holmes #simple #excellence

Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#ethics

When we hit our lowest point we are opened to the greatest change. ↗

— Aang

#inspirational-life #change