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...those others - they're looking for trends - subjects to catch a spark - but I have you - a coal from God's altar - a star cupped in my hands... ↗

— John Geddes

#coal #god #love #poetry #star

Happily Single is permission to CHOOSE your life rather than having it handed to you, and it’s living life on your own terms instead of those that are expected of you. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#choices #choosing-your-life #confidence #happily-single #independence

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. ↗

— Alan Watts

#command #feel #love #love is #never

I peek up at his features, at the crooked grin i want to savor, at the color in his eyes i'd use to paint a million pictures. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#eyes #love #shatter-me #tenderness #love

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

— John Powell

#friends #love #love

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides. ↗

— Lurlene McDaniel

#friends #love

That's how it was on Irving Circle and how I was raised: You made the best out of what was within reach, which meant friendships engineered by parents and by the happenstance of housing. I stayed with it because we both had queenly older sisters who rarely condescended to play with us, because Shelley was adopted and I was not, because Shelley had Clue and Life, and I did not ↗

— Elinor Lipman

#making-do #friendship

Good Things Never Stay .. This what People Say.. So,When I met you I knew That Oneday , You Will just Go Away ! STILL...I'll pray & pray That we walk The Same WAY ( : ↗

— mohammed abdel-mohsen

#friendship

Toxic people will pollute everything around them. Don’t hesitate. Fumigate. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#friendship #letting-go #loving-yourself #moving-on #negative-people

[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#family