Quotes of: Fragile-thing Keyword

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Whatever your passion is - even if you're great at it - it can't be the only thing you do... If you do, you'll be great at that one thing... and bad at everything else... Getting that balance is not easy...

The Puzzler's Mansion

I do feel like I have important, beautiful things to say about the world, I just can't think of them at this particular instant.

Poetry! Poetry! Poetry!

You know what?” His breath was warm against my cheek. “There are a lot of stupid things to do, but I really want to do the stupidest thing possible.” “What’s that?” “I want to kiss you.

Pure

You think money can solve any problem, but all it s good for is buying the things it can, and leaving you free to pursue the things it can't.

Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander : a Bisexual Regency Romance

I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.

A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories

Mom's smiles were the most beautiful thing in the world, and they almost always made things better. They almost even made an early bedtime okay, but not quite.

Peanut Goes to School

Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous." (pg. 18)

Paper Towns

So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

I suppose you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.

P.S. I Still Love You

Let's take care of the little things while they're still little.

QBQ! the Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life

For we do not do what we want to do, but what is easiest and most natural for us to do, and if it is easy for us to do the wrong thing, it is that that we will do.

The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.

The Road

Rules for Disappearing by Witness Protection Prisoner #18A7R04M: Don’t fall into a routine. Shake things up. Doing the same thing over and over makes you feel comfortable. And feeling comfortable is bad.

The Rules for Disappearing

It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done.

Tuesdays with Morrie

The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.

Tuesdays with Morrie

You can take your gold, but afterwards, things are, things are . There is less beauty in a rainbow, less meaning in a sermon, less joy in a kiss…Less.

The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains

These are delicious! What are they?" "Double chocolate chip with peanut butter filling." "They're the second best thing I've ever tasted." I laughed. "You said the same thing at dinner." "I recently readjusted the ranking.

Tiger's Quest

Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.

Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Good things come to those who ate. I’m going to wait to eat. I just got done swallowing my pride, and I’ll be full for the foreseeable future.

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