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What are men to rocks and mountains?
— Jane Austen
compassion has the word compass in it
— sev ♊
In the pitiless light of day we were as insignificant as the beetles I watched labouring across the sand. Only in the kindly darkness could we borrow a few square feet of desert and find homeliness within the radius of the firelight, while overhead the familiar pattern of the stars screened the awful mystery of space.
— Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands
The grass is greenest where you water it.
— From a friend's best man speech
I could tell you the truth
but you’d call me a liar
tried to wave a white flag
but you set it on fire
— Sigrid, Burning Bridges
Brushing your teeth is the only time you clean your skeleton.
— Aurora
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
— From a recent podcast about reason vs gut instinct
As a 43-year-old, I realized last year that a FitBit, Apple Watch, or other "health" device is just a tamagatchi for an adult, except the stupid animal you're trying to keep alive is yourself.
— Reddit user EvilEtna
The adage that travel broadens the mind and can make you a more open-minded, tolerant person, IME is very true. For that reason, I especially like the etomology behind the Icelandic word "heimskur", which means "stupid", or ~"one who hasn't left home".
— martin ♊
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
— Goethe
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
— Not Dr Seuss after all