#engage

So," he called to her back, "Just out of curiosity, you know, purely conversation and all, at what age will you be entertaining offers of marriage?" "You think it'll be so easy?" she called back over her shoulder. "No way. There will be tasks. Like in a fairy tale." "Sounds dangerous." "Very, so think twice." "No need," he said. "You're worth it. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#humor #love #marriage #proposals #age

When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit. Work is love made visible ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#inspirational #work #dreams

We drive down the road in complete silence for a few miles listening to 50 Cent. As soon as he tells us that he's into having sex, he ain't into making love, Casey turns the volume down and begins telling me the following information: " I love you so much. We're going to have the best life together. I can't wait." Every word she says makes me feel a little more like faking a stroke and pretending to lose all memory of who I was, but it's not until she looks me in the eye and says in all seriousness, "You're my soul mate," that I realize I am not going to marry her. ↗

— Chad Kultgen

#love #male #marry #soul #life

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is. ↗

— George Eliot

#marriage #married #marriage

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#against #appeals #conduct #deaf #destructive

Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don't really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#anything #dancing #down #engage #feet

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement. ↗

— Ken Burns

#based #choices #cynicism #disengagement #fear

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#i #inordinately #must #push #whatever

I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#engage #i #i am #i love #love

How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question. ↗

— Ted Danson

#how #important #individual #life #much