#break

In the kitchen Valeria was making breakfast, his aunt never made breakfast even though Carlo insisted for years that a hotel hoping to cater to French and Americans must offer breakfast. “It’s a lazy man’s meal.", she always said. "What laggard expects to eat before doing any work? ↗

— Jess Walter

#italy #lazy #beauty

If I am to be fallen into love, I will. And if as a result I will appear to be stupid, disillusioned, and of poor judgment, I will. And I would be damned if I cared what other people think. For I would rather be thought of as all of these things, than not love. If in loving, I become the naked woman on the horse, I will ride that horse with my head held high. This is my spirit. I am unbreakable. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#courage #fearless #fight-for-love #human #inspirational

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. ↗

— Amanda McBroom

#breaking #dance #heart #learns #never

Some people don't care if they live or they die. Some people want to know what it feels like to fly. They gather their courage and they give it a try And fall under the wheels of time going by. ↗

— Patty Griffin

#courage

I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#heartbreak #parenthood #courage

Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them. ↗

— Judith McNaught

#cry #pride #stock #tears #courage

Not to be with the one you love, Laura, the one person you should be spending your life with--it’s like a kind of living death. To wake up every morning and know you are still here. To have that brief, sweet moment of blankness, before your mind reminds you who you are, and why you are unhappy. It was like hell. A living hell of the heart’s own making. ↗

— Harriet Evans

#love #death

I'm a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#camille #deject #life #love #worth

Pues así como estoy, me voy a ir. Venid, venid, compañeros los que estáis presentes y ausentes; y con hachas en las manos corred hacia el lugar famoso. Y yo, puesto que mi opinión así ha cambiado, y yo mismo la aprisioné, quiero estar presente para salvarla; pues temo no sea la mejor resolución el vivir observando las leyes establecidas. ↗

— Sophocles

#courage #death #courage

That was one other time when my whole body reacted to the fear and went out of my own control. My nerves came apart completely, and I started vomiting and vomiting. I couldn't stop. It had been such a narrow escape. I kept telling myself that I could take all of the pressure; but there were those times that my body seemed almost to shut itself down, to scream that what was happening was just too much. ↗

— Diet Eman

#breakdown #exertion #limits #diet