#advice

Advice from a Polar Bear"Live Large. Sniff out opportunities. Learn some good icebreakers. Be thick-skinned. Be fearless. Appreciate long winter nights. Keep it cool! ↗

— Sassy

#fearless

...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ... ↗

— John Geddes

#life

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#comfort #science #sympathy #science

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#equivocation #gildor #wise

I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#friendship #love #relationship-advice #relationships #respecting-others

For [erotically intelligent couples], love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. They know that they have years in which to deepen their connection, to experiment, to regress, and even to fail. They see their relationship as something alive and ongoing, not a fait accompli. It’s a story that they are writing together, one with many chapters, and neither partner knows how it will end. There’s always a place they haven’t gone yet, always something about the other still to be discovered. ↗

— Esther Perel

#love #love-story #marriage #marriage-advice #relationships

What about thinking of happiness as a right instead than as a gift? ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#giving-advice #happiness #happy #inspiration #inspirational

Once you start laughing, you start healing. ↗

— Sherry Argov

#self-help #love

Sweetie,” Dino said, coming over to put his arm around her shoulder. He tipped her head up and looked into her eyes with great empathy. “You can’t fuck a statue. At least not at that angle. You’d at least have to tip it onto its back first, and as a conservator, I can’t recommend it. ↗

— Rosanna Leo

#sex #statue #love

The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent. ↗

— Val Kovalin

#writing-craft #writing-process #grammar