#amin

Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#chess #life #change

I had a dream about you. We were babysitting for a family of mannequins, and we were arguing over what to feed them. You wanted to feed them organic food, but I said, “Why waste real food on fake people?” In the end you agreed, and we served them a genetically modified dinner.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#dreams #funny #humor #life #relationships

I didn’t even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn’t need one to know her. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#fiction #identity #love #lovers #naming

At the time he had closed in upon himself, denying her a place of entry. She was tenacious, aggressive as a lover, had tried to prise the pieces of him apart. Only when she failed had she finally let go, by then months had passed. She loved like she was going to war, but she was also not the kind of woman to wait for a man. Valiant in battle, noble in defeat. She walked away and never looked back ↗

— Aminatta Forna

#forna #love #memory #nenebah #love

Such things have little to do with brevity of meeting. And in that lies our hope: for the Dark understands nothing of love. ↗

— Allison Croggon

#cadvan #love #the-naming #love

And afterwards, if you had asked any of the survivors how they had managed it, they would not have been able to tell you. It was as if those days in the forest, the escape to the city, had passed in a trance. The mind creates an alternative state. ↗

— Aminatta Forna

#forna #kai #love #memory #love

The best give you can give today is the gift of LOVE! ↗

— Colishia S. Benjamin

#gift #give #life #love #poetry

Most people think love comes from the heart or soul. The heart simply pumps blood, so love can't be created there. Where is the center for what appears to be a person's soul? The Brain. And what is created there, Jilly? That's right--dopamine. What does dopamine do? Creates feelings of love and euphoria. How do we get our brains to create more? Drugs, massage, and/or sex. Boil it down and it's all just dopamine. ↗

— Kaya McLaren

#heart #love #sex #soul #love

What is love when it's not for dopamine? ↗

— Saurabh Sharma

#humor #lust #pleasure #pleasures #true-love

Prose Poems from my book SPAN OBSERVATION So, we may not be able to explain the world. Not exactly. But we can accept it, and love it. We can turn our faces to the light and examine the minutest details simply for the sake of it. We can live lives of joy and purpose. We are all part of one whole. Take comfort in this. Almost every one of us is capable of holding a cup to another’s lips without our hands shaking. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#comfort #cup #examine #hands #holding