#action

One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#health #love #pathology #right #wrong

The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know. ↗

— Renata Adler

#social-interaction #life

See it, learn it, do it ALL. ↗

— Jamie McCall

#adventure #adventurer #author #high-life #law-of-attraction

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#love #love

The problem with human attraction is not knowing if it will be returned. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#being-loved #insecurity #love

I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#attraction #love #love

Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing ↗

— William Shakespeare

#courtship #love #love

He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#love #love

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#fantasy-love #imaginary-sex #imagination #love #sex

On the other hand, if the future is not the one you chose then you may have to use your willpower to obtain the future of your liking. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age