#things

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. ↗

— Yann Martel

#living-things #madness #life

I'm biding my time until my real life kicks in." "How will you know when that happens?" "It will be when I no longer have a list of things I've never done. ↗

— G.J. Walker-Smith

#life #saving-wishes #things-to-do #life

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#gentleness #love #material-things #money #power

Best friends one, and now we have almost nothing to say to each other. It was interesting, how he had joined those guys and I just stayed on my own. I didn't like it or dislike it. It was just funny that things had turned out that way. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#friends #funny #interesting #like #the-way-things-turn-out

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. ↗

— John Ruskin

#beautiful things #instance #lilies #most #most beautiful

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out. ↗

— Lou Reed

#even #everything #loss #magic #out

Seven is a lucky number, so I plan to do a lot of lucky things with my seventh place title. ↗

— Anwar Robinson

#lot #lucky #number #place #plan

It's the business I'm in, I can't say that signing things is the favourite part of my career but you know that it has to be done and that there is no pain involved. ↗

— Cliff Richard

#career #done #favourite #i #involved

Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise. ↗

— Patricia Richardson

#attention #believe #creative #creative ways #finding

But I will confess 
that I began as an astronomer—a liking
for bright flashes, vast distances, unreachable things,
a hand stretched always toward the furthest limit—
and that my longing for you has not taken me
very far from that original desire
to inscribe a comet’s orbit around the walls
of our city, to gently stroke the surface of the stars. ↗

— Troy Jollimore

#inspirational #self #stars #the-origin-of-things #inspirational