Jeff's Quotes is a tumblelog.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better man.

豊かな感情を楽しみ、複雑な感情と格闘しないのならば、そういう人は動物に戻ってしまえばいい。

“If we yearn to live affluent lives without complexity or fighting, we should return to being animals.”

(via ysugano)

What you are comes to you.

I don’t believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention. I believe that someone should become a person like other people.

After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.

Knowing exactly how much of the future can be introduced into the present is the secret of great government.

If you don’t get what you want, it’s a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.

Rudyard Kipling

(via reluctantbuddha)

As a circle of light increases so does the circumference of darkness around it.