#admiration

Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The way fall feels at night because of it, because of the crackling sound and walking around the sidewalks, like when you’re a kid, and kicking those soft piles, and seeing smoke from backyards and Mr. Kilstrap standing over the metal drum with the holes in the top, the sparking embers at his feet. ↗

— Megan Abbott

#adolescence #philosophy #reflection #love

Taped on the wall was a hand-drawn picture- a stick figure with a bow on the head holding a litterbag. ↗

— Suzanne Crowley

#love #touching #love

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#hermann-hesse #love #philosophy #respect #world

I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you. ↗

— Anthony Bourdain

#disagreement #respect

She had a quality he had never known- she WAS quality. ↗

— Ariana Franklin

#art

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#happiness #woman #woman

she is admired from afar. These admirers court her in secret, in the safety of their dreams. ↗

— Whitney Otto

#crush #dreams

There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#innocence #innocence

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to? ↗

— Ayn Rand

#admiration #atlas-shrugged #inspirational #love #objectivism

To a man, sex is the ultimate expression of love. It is pure pleasure. But to a woman there exists something greater than pleasure - gestures of adoration. A gentle caress on the cheek, an attentive smile, a soft kiss while swept away in a slow dance, the whispered words, 'You're beautiful' - these are the tokens of love that women cherish. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#adoration #attention #love #lovers #pleasure