#elation

When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life. ↗

— Shauna Niequist

#friendship #relationships #faith

It is assured that men of all ages imagine a woman naked when they first meet. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#male-and-female #male-thinking #maleness #men #men-and-women

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#anyone #cannot #had #i #intercourse

Her violence frightened me. She always claimed that I was the jealous one, and I was often jealous, but when I saw things working against me I simply became disgusted and withdrew. Lydia was different. She reacted. She was the Head Cheerleader at the Game of Violence. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#relationships #love

Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling. ↗

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

#antithesis #bear #being #between #ethics

Everybody deserves love, but nobody is entitled to it. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#love #relationships #love

The only way to move from your reality to God’s reality is through people who love you. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#love #revelation #soulmates #wisdom #friendship

I am in love, and the river is beginning to ice over. I’d better go drown myself before I freeze to death.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#death #drown #freeze #freezing #funny

Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together. ↗

— Graham Greene

#beauty

I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations. ↗

— Carol Shields

#construct #contained #discoveries #feelings #had