#bs

Is it love, obsession, infatuation? You don't know. You think of a strange and beautiful word you read about once, Limerance, a psychological term, meaning an obsessive love, a state that's almost like a drug. Need like a wolf paces the perimeter of your world, back and forth, back and forth, never letting up. ...You're appalled by the new appetites within you, kicking their feet and clawing to get out. ↗

— Nikki Gemmell

#love #obsession #beauty

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#average #average man #carefully #cheerful #crumbs

It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth. ↗

— Charles Edison

#before #commonwealth #even #how #issues

Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#crumbs #different #eating #feast #forever

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#manner #new #require #shall #substantially

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#bankrupt #ourselves #search #security #vain

The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#believe #disarmament #further #important #important step

My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!' ↗

— Carmen Electra

#i #i wish #learned #mom #obsessed

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. ↗

— George Eliot

#comes #despair #first #great #healed

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#always #beyond #escapes #every #experience