#ding

Heaven is high and earth wide.If you ride three feet above ground than other men,you will know what that means. ↗

— Rudolf C. Binding

#horseback-riding #men

A few years ago, Cindy joined one of those dreadful reading groups, where unhappy, repressed middle class lesbians talk for five minutes about some novel they don't understand and then spend the rest of the evening moaning about how dreadful men are. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#men

They'd drink like men, like their fathers and uncles, like George fucking Washington... ↗

— Claire Vaye Watkins

#inspiration #man-o-war #inspirational

Life never goes according to plan. That's okay, because often our plans are much smaller than life intends. Probably EASIER, but smaller. ↗

— Stacey T. Hunt

#body #easy #humor #inspirational #intends

Understanding did not provide solace or make the pain go away; in many ways, understanding was just more salt in the emotional wound. Ignorance allowed one to fight back with unfettered cruelty. Understanding inspired empathy, which led to guilt, as well as suffering. She looked at Gavin, supine, unconcerned, contented, and thought that perhaps there was something to being a sociopath. If you didn't have a heart, it couldn't be broken. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#empathy #feelings #feelings-of-weakness #heartbreak #sympathy

It takes understanding to be outstanding ↗

— Pastor Simeon Nwani

#motivational #understanding #inspirational

Speaking kind words starts a wave of love in motion that brings more love upon your shores. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#kind-words #kindness #love #peace #shores

A purposeful act or extension of kindness to another is never wasted, for it always resides in the hearts of all involved in a chain of love. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#extending-your-heart #happiness #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #kindness

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#chimerical #country #faces #father #feeling

The priest then turning toward the bride, inquired: "Wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband, etc., etc., so long as ye both shall live?" To which the bride, throwing aside her veil, answered, firmly: "No! Not if he were the last man and I the last woman on the face of the earth and the human race was about to become extinct and the angel of Gabriel came down from above to ask it of me as a personal favor." The effect of this outburst, this revelation, this explosion, may be imagined but can never be adequately described. ↗

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

#reversal #wedding #imagination