#distance

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. ↗

— Aesop

#brave #distance #easy #safe

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning. ↗

— Diahann Carroll

#difficult #difficult thing #distance #holding #how

Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance. ↗

— Beth Gibbons

#created #distance #feel #like #lyrics

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture. ↗

— Steven Saylor

#big picture #canvas #details #distance #gazing

He had also been demonstrative and intelligent from the very beginning, his questions startlingly insightful. She would watch him absorb a new idea and wonder what effect it would have on him, because, with Edgar, EVERYTHING came out, eventually, somehow. But the PROCESS – how he put together a story about the world’s workings – that was mysterious beyond all ken. In a way, she thought, it was the only disappointing thing about having a child. She’d imagined he would stay transparent to her, more PART of her, for so much longer. But despite the proximity of the daily work, Edgar had ceased long before to be an open book. A friend, yes. A son she loved, yes. But when it came to knowing his thoughts, Edgar could be opaque as a rock. (295) ↗

— David Wroblewski

#development #distance #growth #insight #motherhood

I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#focus #journeys #life #motion #time

I found that I missed him the more he was absent from my life, and the more I missed him, the more I loved him. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#long-distance-relationships #life

... I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last... -Adrienne (on telling her daughter about Paul) ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love

Even though I always came back, he said he was always watching me leave. ↗

— Kimberly Novosel

#leave #leaving #long-distance-love #love #relationships

I am sitting far from you A thousand miles away from you I sit and write for you A thousand lines I write for you A thousand times I write for you. If love could reach you Thousand miles away I would say it then I love you – a thousand times. I will come again Much closer than before But I won’t say it then For I will fall in love A thousand times more. It’s better to restrain Until its time for the plane I will say it then I love you a thousand times A thousand miles away. With every mile I go away I love you even more So please stay away A thousand miles more ↗

— Amit Abraham

#distance-relationship #love #love