#chi

A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization! ↗

— Deeba Salim Irfan

#goal #goal-achievement #goals #hurdles #love-hurts

Everyone has a secret. ↗

— Kristine Cuevas

#humor #love #romance #romantic-comedy #love

Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque dream which quite naturally touches on the borders of the irrational ... architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#architecture

I think I have said enough. ↗

— Cedric Price

#architecture

I get all the arguments against it. I even get the one that says... "I don't know if I want to bring another kid into this world." But how do you argue with the logic of loving one that's already here? ↗

— John Cusack

#martian-child #love

People wasted so much time seeking out the love of their lives in the shape of a partner, when the truth was that for most the real loves of their lives were their children - and everyone else was dispensable. ↗

— Anna McPartlin

#love #searching #love

He liked to feel the soft little hand clasping his own fingers, so big and coarse in comparison, and happily so strong. For in the child's weakness he felt an infinite pathos; a being so entirely helpless, so utterly dependent upon others' love, standing there amid a world of cruelties, smiling and trustful. ↗

— George R. Gissing

#love

Sweet. You did it, Pat. I thank you. My libido thanks you and my manly bits that the ladies love, thank you as well.” Shawn grinned. ↗

— Ginny Atkinson

#lumenessa-saga #love

The little prince went away, to look again at the roses. "You are not at all like my rose," he said. "As yet, you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. "You're like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#children-s-books #love #love

I've read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind. ↗

— Donald Trump

#china #chinese #donald-trump #trump #art