#cons

To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people. ↗

— John Powell

#friends #love #love

Screw the rules, damn the consequences, and just love. Love until it kills you, because there's nothing better worth dying for. ↗

— Karen Amanda Hooper

#love #love

Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless; I'm glad those people don't love me. ↗

— Marc Bekoff

#consistency #ethics #love

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#dreams #reality #dreams

What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned? ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#age

Women are never tired of bewailing man’s fickleness in love, but they only seem to snub his constancy. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#fickleness #love #love

A true artist willingly removes their heart, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back--bruised and aching--to continue improving due to the all-consuming obsessive love for their art. ↗

— H.G. Mewis

#h-g-mewis #true-artist #art

I knew that before I asked . . . but part of me can’t help hoping that maybe this time, he’ll love me.” “As I can’t help hoping that my mother will rise, and will once again be the woman who sang me such lullabies that the world stood still.” Pulling her into a crushing embrace, he pressed his lips to her temple. “We are both fools. ↗

— Nalini Singh

#love

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#government #money #money

Expect poison from the standing water. ↗

— William Blake

#middle-america #society #marriage