#akin

Once, a great handful of a girl out west told him - I never did love you. […]How mean of her to salve her spit curled conscience by trying to take away their past! In the kitchen he had started to use those very words on Lou - they sprang readily to mind, as wounding words do - but he stopped himself. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#love

Qu'est-ce-que faire l'amour ? c'est languir après le tout proche, comme si une fois levés tout les obstacles, , dans le contact des peaux, et l'entralacement des epidermes, l'Autre refusait encore de se laisser prendre. ↗

— Alain Finkielkraut

#making-love #other-people #love

Avoiding conflict isn’t peacemaking. Avoiding conflict means running away from the mess while peacemaking means running into the middle of it. Peacemaking means addressing those issues that caused conflict in the first place. Peacemaking can never be separated from doing justice. They go hand in hand. Peacemaking means having to stir the waters on the way to peace. Peacemaking means speaking the truth in love, but speaking the truth nonetheless. ↗

— Peggy Haymes

#confrontation #justice #peace #peacemaking #love

Large men in black plate mail with red cloaks and plumes don't sneak worth a damn. ↗

— Tanya Huff

#knights #sneaking #stealth #men

All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#filmmaking #movies #movies

Through my choices and actions, I have learned the most effective way of speaking to God is without saying a word. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#choices #communication #god #happiness #life

He danced the way he made love, with passion and tenderness and spirit, communicating with hands and eyes the most subtle messages, tenderly making up for Lila's awkwardness. In his lashes and his hair, mist clung in tiny diamond drops. She could not take her eyes from him. ↗

— Ruth Wind

#dancing #lovemaking #tenderness #communication

Don't bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING.... The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely miss the point.... Seriously. Keep peeling the onion and you get no onion. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#arguing #argument #communication #debate #discourse

One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#breakups #dating #finding-yourself #fresh-starts #letting-go

Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but “safe” isn’t one of them. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#dating #heart #love #playing-it-safe #positive-thinking