#ene

I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you've got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#energy

The Doctor: Rose... before I go, I just want to tell you: you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And do you know what? [Pause] So was I! [The TARDIS lights up with energy as the Doctor regenerates into his tenth incarnation.] The Tenth Doctor: Hello! Okay— [The Doctor pauses and swallows uncomfortably] New teeth. That's weird. So where was I? Oh, that's right. Barcelona! [Grins] ↗

— Russell T. Davies

#energy

He paused, his smug grin turning wicked as his eyes met mine. “We could always have sex. I hear that uses up a lot of energy. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#obsidian #energy

When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#woman #energy

We humans have always sought to increase our personal energy in the only manner we have known, by seeking to psychologically steal it from the others--an unconscious competition that underlies all human conflict in the world. ↗

— James Redfield

#conflict

Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size of a gift, it is its quality and the amount of mental attachment you overcome that count. So don't bankrupt yourself on a momentary positive impulse, only to regret it later. Give thought to giving. Give small things, carefully, and observe the mental processes going along with the act of releasing the little thing you liked. (53) (Quote is actually Robert A F Thurman but Huston Smith, who only wrote the introduction to my edition, seems to be given full credit for this text.) ↗

— Huston Smith

#generosity #gift #giving #non-attachment #practice

...I became aware of the world's tenderness, the profound beneficence of all that surrounded me, the blissful bond between me and all of creation, and I realized that the joy I sought in you was not only secreted within you, but breathed around me everywhere, in the speeding street sounds, in the hem of a comically lifted skirt, in the metallic yet tender drone of the wnid, in the autumn clouds bloated with rain. I realized that the world does not represent a struggle at all, or a predaceous sequence of chance events, but the shimmering bliss, beneficent trepidation, a gift bestowed upon us and unappreciatd. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#creation

The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket. ↗

— Jose Bergaman

#generally #his #judged #man #mind

There is strong shadow where there is much light. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#enlightenment #shadow #enlightenment

Momma, you're special," Renesmee told me without any surprise, like she was commenting on the color of my clothes. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#color