#din

So they gave me love in form of poison and tiny little pills, programming my emotions, teaching me how to feel. To act correct and talk correct and answer without knowing the question, because that, my dear, is how you get love. Yes that, dear youth, is how you'll be loved. I tried to medicate my own fucked up little mind with chemicals and adrenaline, tasting sweeter every night, shaking louder every time. Sitting wide awake in bed until the world disappears, writing poetry to concentrate on something real while waiting for the love to arrive. I've been looking for it night after night, waiting patiently for it to show up, maybe somewhere in between the state of awake and asleep, alive and not so alive, sober and not so sober. (I lost track of the difference somewhere in between.) ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#finding-yourself #love #lucid-dreaming #night #pills

Ecstasy and bliss must come from within. ↗

— Christopher Dines

#christopher-dines-quotes #la-petite-fleur-publishing #manifest-your-bliss #dreams

Here's a glorious thought: You don't have to settle. Ever. In life, in love, in your career…ANYWHERE! ↗

— Mandy Hale

#dreams #holding-out-for-the-best #life #love #not-settling

Never stop dreaming or reading. ↗

— A.B. Shepherd

#hope #inspiration #life #life-and-living #reading

Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#dating #finding-love #living-life-to-the-fullest #living-your-best-life #love

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them. ↗

— Jane Austen

#defects #dislike #education #hatred #misunderstanding

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read. ↗

— John Adams

#lifelong-learning #reading #education

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#attain #because #being #free #highest

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#discovery #education #reading #education

Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write. ↗

— Roy Peter Clark

#reading #writing #education