#being

Where other women ... were lovely, Annie Gamache was alive. Late, too late, Jean Guy Beauvoir had come to appreciate how very important it was, how very attractive it was, how very rare it was, to be fully alive. ↗

— Louise Penny

#love

What destiny is there, but to sense, observe, merge, re-emerge, Empty, yet filled, spreading everywhere, inside, outside, in, Pulsing, fluctuating, breathing as part of one being, Whispering, feeling, reflecting, flowing between hot and cold, Mineral and plant, dark and light, love and fear, new and old. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#breathing #destiny #everywhere #feeling #flowing

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#alright #alternative #being #better #here

Because I know there are people who say all these things don’t happen. And there are people who forget what it’s like to be sixteen when they turn seventeen. I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all become somebody’s mom or dad. But right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening. I am here, and I am looking at her. And she is so beautiful. I can see it. This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You are alive. And you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you’re listening to that song, and that drive with the people who you love most in this world. And in this moment, I swear, we are infinite. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#love

We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis. ↗

— LeeAnn Taylor

#become #becoming #being #butterflies #butterfly

He was seething inside with a new emotion. Nothing seemed very important anymore except the Princess. He was single-minded about her. He was enchanted. He was possessed. He was in love. ↗

— Ken Follett

#love

Everyone knows what falling in love is like but being in love is what people have lost. That intimacy to be in bed with somebody and just laugh and not hold anybody accountable for what they say. ↗

— Mark Polish

#falling-in-love #flo #for-lovers-only #heart #in-bed-with

When deep down in the core of your being you believe that your soul mate exists, there is no limit to the ways he or she can enter your life. ↗

— Arielle Ford

#human-beings #love #soul-mates #love

An amazing thing happens when you stop seeking approval and validation: You find it. People are naturally drawn like magnets to those who know who they are and cannot be shaken! ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-yourself #confidence #knowing-who-you-are #loving-yourself #seeking-validation

Single |sin•gle| (adjective) - Too fabulous to settle. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-single #fabulous #loving-yourself #not-settling #positive-thinking