#there

The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there had only ever been one boy. ↗

— Wendelin Van Draanen

#bryce-loski #crush #flipped #julie-baker #love

When people show you who they are, believe them. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#ethereal #love #people #show #love

Ah! How contrary are the teachings of Jesus to the feelings of nature! Without the help of His grace it would be impossible not only to put them into practice, but to even understand them. ↗

— St. Therese of Liseiux

#story-of-a-soul #nature

Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#been #changes #expect #fellow #full

I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles. ↗

— Damon Albarn

#anymore #bothered #giving #i #songs

As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again. ↗

— Josef Albers

#basic #cases #color #continually #different

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. ↗

— Aristotle

#good #man #must #politics #science

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature. ↗

— Aristotle

#apprehend #enough #nature #participates #reason

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#attempt #awkward #cradle #cure #every

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday. ↗

— Felix Adler

#church #custom #emphasizing #ethical #importance