#being

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love. ↗

— Richard Yates

#insanity #love

Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life. ↗

— Angie Everhart

#correct #day #every #every day #fat

He pulled me closer until his lips breathed me in, until we were sharing one breath. ↗

— Heather Anastasiu

#falling-in-love #in-love #kissing #lips #love

She is not the princess locked away in the fortress and you are not some hero who's going to save her. ↗

— Heather Anastasiu

#blinded-by-euphoria #blinded-by-love #in-love #love #love

Ever, could I or could I not count the shadows of your being? ↗

— Nema Al-Araby

#love #shadows #love

The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being. ↗

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

#phenomenology #truth #art

Men are like cigarettes. I only want one when I'm drunk. ↗

— Helen Smith

#being-light #helen-smith #men

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#love

Happily Single is permission to CHOOSE your life rather than having it handed to you, and it’s living life on your own terms instead of those that are expected of you. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#choices #choosing-your-life #confidence #happily-single #independence

You don’t need a significant other to lead a significant life. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-single #independence #life #love #not-settling