Helen Kieran Reilly famous quotes

Beauty is only bearable when you're happy.
-- Helen Kieran Reilly

#Beauty #Bearable

emotion without discipline is as dangerous as a high-powered car without brakes.
-- Helen Kieran Reilly

#Discipline #Car #Emotion

On the whole, mental archaeology was a sordid digging proposition. The evil men did endured, the good was infinitely more ephemeral. You could generally find out whether a man had been a horse-thief, or an embezzler or a wife-beater, if you worked hard enough, but acts of kindness, of charity, a gay spirit, vanished without leaving a trace.
-- Helen Kieran Reilly

#Horse #Kindness #Gay

Domesticity was meat and drink to Mouse, and she liked taking care of people. She had done it for so long that it had become a habit with her.
-- Helen Kieran Reilly

#Long #People #Meat

Joy could be as exhausting as grief.
-- Helen Kieran Reilly

#Grief #Joy

Time is the measure of that which changes ...
-- Helen Kieran Reilly

#Time

You trust wholly or not at all. Trust was not divisible.
-- Helen Kieran Reilly

#Trust

Do good and throw it in the sea; if God doesn't see it, the fishes will.
-- Helen Kieran Reilly

#Sea #Fishes

Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.

I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.

If you're going to commit to that, you're going to have to find some way to make it bearable and enjoyable.

Maybe lifting someone else’s weight makes yours a little more bearable