black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Related Topics

Condition Essential Happiness Life Struggle Yourself

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Course Flow Sorry
Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Criticism Life Opportunity Remember Yourself
I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Growth Mindset Myself People Place See
The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Existence Eyes Small World Yourself
Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Fast Ourselves Run
And in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Broken End Healing Human Ideas Love
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Live Occupation People Space
When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Breathe Myself Presence Quite Right
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Civilization Discipline Natural Power Thinking Yourself
It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Met Myself People Rude
To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Brilliant Heart Important Kind Listening Mindset People Right Time
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Flow Life Move On Past Philosophy
Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Ability Argument Intelligence See Side Validation
To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Brilliant Important Kind Listening Mindset People Right Talk Time
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Intimacy Recover
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Action Better Myself Word Yourself

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'imagick.so' (tried: /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0